Law in Contemporary Society

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GabrielZacariasIntro 13 Jan 2012 - 23:18 IanSullivan
I hoped to go to Law School and essentially learn about all about the law. How to practice, how to think, and how to read were my three main learning objectives. I ...
GabrielleKloppersFirstEssay 26 Feb 2020 - 21:19 GabrielleKloppers
Writing the Law By GabrielleKloppers 26 Feb 2020 The Law is Language The interpretive powers of storytelling take on a special significance in a courtroom. After ...
GabrielleStanfieldFirstEssay 26 May 2022 - 01:55 GabrielleStanfield
Achievement vs. Acceptance By GabrielleStanfield 11 Mar 2022 SEEKING ACCEPTANCE My professional experiences have been profoundly impacted by my experience as ...
GabrielleStanfieldIntro 14 Jan 2022 - 20:57 GabrielleStanfield
Personal Introduction By GabrielleStanfield 14 Jan 2022 Hi! My name is Gabrielle (or Gabby) and my pronouns are she/her. I am originally from Boston and I graduated ...
GabrielleStanfieldSecondEssay 10 Jun 2022 - 19:03 GabrielleStanfield
Re claiming the presentation of Black Figures in Photography By GabrielleStanfield 23 Apr 2022 On Photography In her 1977 collection of essays, On Photography ...
GallipoliAndTheBandPlayedWaltzingMatilda 07 Jan 2010 - 22:34 IanSullivan
XinpingZhu 24 May 2009 There is a book review of "Gallipoli" written by Robin Prior on today's WSJ. I believe that is what the song "And The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda ...
GavinSnyderFirstPaper 31 May 2017 - 01:54 TyCarleton
There was no need to retain prior versions of this topic on the page, because all prior versions are available if you use the "Diffs" button. So I removed the first ...
GavinSnyderIntro 08 Jan 2010 - 17:17 IanSullivan
I'm in law school to achieve financial security. If legal work turns out to be interesting to me, I'll consider it a pleasant bonus.
GavinSnyderSecondPaper 08 Jan 2010 - 22:39 IanSullivan
Revised version of ScottThurmanFirstPaper. Teaching, coercion, examination By ScottThurman 15 Apr 2009 Revised by GavinSnyder 17 Apr 2009 Teaching and coercion ...
GavinSnyderThirdPaper 08 Jan 2010 - 22:46 IanSullivan
Make Biglaw More Evil Dear Professor Moglen, When I was filling out my L CS course evaluation I realized that I had a lot to say #8211; more than would be appropriate ...
GeanetteFosterFirstEssay 02 Jun 2017 - 07:51 GeanetteFoster
How Do I Make Long Form Commitments in My Life Given My Upbringing Despite moving every three years on average, I know that I can make long form commitments in my ...
GeanetteFosterSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 04:30 GeanetteFoster
The Awakening By GeanetteFoster 08 Jun 2017 I considered framing this essay around balance, but I as I outlined this essay, I recognized that I would often have ...
GechiNzewiFirstPaper 22 Jan 2013 - 20:10 IanSullivan
Activists and Attorneys NOTE: This is the first installation of an idea that I will finish in my second essay. "Installation" meant "installment." You can ...
GechiNzewiSecondPaper 22 Jan 2013 - 20:09 IanSullivan
Attorneys and Activists, Part 2 Introduction Unlike Malcolm X, John Brown was never beholden to anyone. While Malcolm was able to anticipate manner of his death ...
GenesisSanchezFirstEssay 12 Apr 2018 - 18:42 GenesisSanchez
A Window to my Choices: The Evolution of a Law Student By Genesis Sanchez Tavarez 12 Apr 2018 The Search for Justice Our experiences dictate our actions and ...
GenesisSanchezSecondEssay 01 Jun 2018 - 14:11 EbenMoglen
Not Following the Masses: Taking Charge of My Education By Genesis Sanchez Tavarez 26 Apr 2018 Breaking the Mold During this first year of law school, I have ...
GeorgeMenzFirstEssay 19 May 2024 - 16:53 EbenMoglen
My Shadow in the Sun By GeorgeMenz 22 Feb 2024 What I Am It is not essential to my self conception that I am a good person. I am well aware that if I stood before ...
GeorgeMenzSecondEssay 19 May 2024 - 17:05 EbenMoglen
My Father's Career By GeorgeMenz 09 Apr 2024 Biographical Sketch My father #8217;s family was less than bourgeois. His father was a factory worker, an employee ...
GershamJFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 17:58 GershamJ
Why I #8217;m Leaving In the Fall (Or Better Yet, As Soon as Possible) By GershamJ 28 Feb 2020 What I Seek Is a Personal Doctrine What I seek is a personal ...
GetYourOwnDamnJob 07 Jan 2010 - 22:34 IanSullivan
OK, everybody is worried about jobs, internships. It does not matter you are 1L, 2L, 3L or associates, or partners. Everybody is at risk. I, for one, don't have a ...
GettingToKnowUs 19 Jan 2022 - 01:26 JermelMcClure
Getting to Know Us First week small group meetings. All meetings will be held at Jitsi Meet server. Please also see NoteOnBrowsers. Tue 18 Jan 1:20pm Taryn Wilkins ...
GhaliaAamerFirstEssay 30 May 2024 - 03:29 GhaliaAamer
Breaking the Mold: How Learning Pods Can Reshape Education By GhaliaAamer 23 Feb 2024 Institutionalization in Schools Personal Experience I remember walking ...
GhaliaAamerSecondEssay 30 May 2024 - 03:37 GhaliaAamer
Why are 73% of people afraid of public speaking? By GhaliaAamer 22 Apr 2024 So what if you mess up. It seemed odd to me that the first week of law school orientation ...
GideonHart-FirstPaper 12 Jan 2009 - 22:58 IanSullivan
Abstract: Narratives are the most common form of modern historiography. Although other forms of history exist, and were used on a regular basis in earlier times, they ...
GideonHart-SecondPaper 22 Jan 2009 - 01:15 IanSullivan
GideonHart 2 Apr 2008 A Misunderstood Manifesto By Gideon Hart (#) refers to page numbers within the Evangelical Manifesto Confusion in the Media On May 7th a group ...
GideonHartIntro 22 Jan 2009 - 01:15 IanSullivan
GideonHart 17 Jan 2008 I had been thinking about going to law school for awhile. Initially, it was for practical reasons leaving school was scary, and law seemed ...
GillianHoFirstEssay 31 May 2023 - 03:53 GillianHo
Rethinking My Practice Foreword Although my original intended practice in Hong Kong is no longer viable due to the passage of the 2020 National Security Law, I ...
GillianHoSecondEssay 16 May 2023 - 18:43 MichaelPari
Returning to Law School in the Fall By GillianHo 05 Apr 2023 The Question Itself Over the course of the semester, Eben has consistently challenged us to think ...
GloverWrightFirstPaper 13 Jan 2012 - 23:14 IanSullivan
To Hold in a Single Thought Reality and Justice A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior ...
GloverWrightIntro 13 Jan 2012 - 23:18 IanSullivan
I studied anthropology and philosophy in college, where I developed an interest in critical theory, technology, and the ways they might each inform the other. I had ...
GloverWrightSecondPaper 13 Jan 2012 - 23:34 IanSullivan
Glover these are my final edits. I #8217;ve rewritten the essay, but also left some of my thoughts in red. You may want to look back at the history and see my initial ...
GodardSolomonFirstEssay 29 May 2022 - 17:37 GodardSolomon
Envisioning Myself in the Courtroom By GodardSolomon 12 Mar 2022 (second draft 29 May 2022) Introduction Ever since high school, I was sure that I wanted to ...
GodardSolomonIntro 13 Jan 2022 - 22:45 GodardSolomon
Personal Introduction My name is Godard Solomon and I am from Miami, FL. I went to University of Miami for undergrad where I studied Political Science and Sociology ...
GodardSolomonSecondEssay 30 May 2022 - 18:44 GodardSolomon
Community Intervention to Curb Over Incarceration By GodardSolomon 27 Apr 2022 (second draft 30 May 2022) Foreword During my undergraduate years, I was ...
GoodLeads 07 Jan 2010 - 22:48 IanSullivan
Got any leads on how to be a good lawyer? Put them here. Boutique Firms I think boutique firms might be the way to go. I spoke with an associate at a boutique ...
GraceChanFirstPaper 13 Jan 2012 - 23:14 IanSullivan
OPEN ACCESS TO LEGAL INFORMATION still editing a bit By GraceChan 17 Feb 2010 The Problem With the System Today Unequal Access is Unequal Justice A report ...
GraceChanIntro 13 Jan 2012 - 23:18 IanSullivan
I've long been captivated by the notion of justice, which first manifested itself as a love for the superhero genre. This initially led me to try journalism, but I ...
GraceChanSecondPaper 13 Jan 2012 - 23:34 IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...
GraceKrasnermanFirstEssay 04 Jun 2016 - 19:23 EbenMoglen
"Liberty and Justice For All?" By GraceKrasnerman 18 April 2016 Law as Secondary to Sociopolitical Influences Lawrence Joseph's Lawyerland provides a third ...
GraceKrasnermanSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 21:01 GraceKrasnerman
An Unfortunate Alienation By GraceKrasnerman 13 June 2016 The justice system is revered as the alleged bastion of ethics in any complex society such as ours ...
GradeChangeToPassFail 28 Mar 2020 - 21:38 MatthewGoldstein
Grade Change to Pass/Fail I'm curious to hear how you all have been affected by the grade change to credit/no credit. How has it altered your stress/anxiety levels ...
GradingCurveTalk 07 Jan 2010 - 22:34 IanSullivan
I am going to try and summarize what we know and create new talk pages for the areas we are still trying to figure out. Hopefully this will make an unwieldy topic ...
GradingProfessors 17 Apr 2010 - 14:55 NonaFarahnik
a.k.a. Grading Professors So WE Get Better Feedback From Eben: " I think it is time to stop expecting to acquire commitment points by writing extensively about how ...
GrammarTalk 07 Jan 2010 - 22:39 IanSullivan
Eben made many corrections on students' papers involving number agreement. For example, "Why does everyone ignore their passions?," as opposed to, say, "Why does ...
GregJohnsonFirstPaper 08 Jan 2010 - 21:35 IanSullivan
A Hopeful View of Individual Action (As Effective Despite Sometimes Going on Autopilot) In which I try to flesh out what it might mean to harness social forces ...
GregJohnsonIntro 08 Jan 2010 - 17:17 IanSullivan
I hope to be able to solve problems with words. I #8217;ve wanted to solve problems for quite some time, which is why for two years I majored in computer science. ...
GregJohnsonSecondPaper 08 Jan 2010 - 22:32 IanSullivan
If swindling is indistinguishable from selling, how can I rest assured that I #8217;m not a swindler? By GregJohnson, rewriting the original by JustinChung Leff ...
GregJohnsonThirdPaper 08 Jan 2010 - 22:46 IanSullivan
Why Corporate Work Looks Bad, Actually Isn #8217;t Bad, But Also Isn #8217;t Best By GregJohnson 15 May 2009 Why Corporate Work Looks Bad Big firms support corporations ...
GregOrrFirstPaper 02 Nov 2019 - 19:52 GregOrr
Content and Sense By GregOrr 17 Apr 2009 In Musil's Man Without Qualities, a group assembled from Austrian society is given an opportunity to choose something ...
GregOrrIntro 11 Jul 2017 - 22:18 GregOrr
I left a job as a #8216;finance risk #8217; consultant to banks, before things went really sour. I thought law school would be intellectually rewarding, grounding ...
GregOrrSecondPaper 12 Feb 2023 - 03:02 GregOrr
(This is a very loose adaptation of Avery's first paper. I wanted to see if I could bring out some of his underlying concerns in a manner that prompts more engagement ...
GregOrrThirdPaper 12 Jan 2022 - 16:09 GregOrr
Pluralistic Meaning By GregOrr 12 Jun 2009 In first paper, I discussed content and sense in reality, communication, and making decisions. With reference to a chapter ...
GregorySuhrFirstEssay 31 May 2017 - 03:32 GregorySuhr
Some days I swear off criminal prosecution. Other days it comes back with a powerful nostalgia, connected to a time when I was paraded around by family as an up and ...
GregorySuhrSecondEssay 04 Jun 2017 - 19:16 GregorySuhr
First Semester My first year at law school taught me the power of inertia: the tendency to remain unchanged. From day one, I followed the mantra I heard at orientation ...
GroupDiscussion 22 Jan 2013 - 18:13 IanSullivan
Hey All, I was thinking that, because we don't have much of a chance to really engage with each other in the classroom in our other classes, that the wiki might be ...
GueinaBlaiseSecondEssay 07 Jun 2022 - 20:10 GueinahBlaise
Introduction In college I took a class called "Philosophy of Liberation." For hours a week, we pontificated about liberation, how it may manifest itself, and whether ...
GueinahBlaiseFirstPaper 07 Jun 2022 - 21:01 GueinahBlaise
GueinahBlaise 12 Mar 2022 Grades Shouldn't Matter, but for Marginalized Persons Trying to Achieve Career Advancement They Do Introduction: #8220;Grades don #8217 ...
GueinahBlaiseIntro 17 Jan 2022 - 21:46 GueinahBlaise
Personal Introduction By GueinahBlaise 17 Jan 2022 My initial interest in law happened for two reasons: (1) I enjoyed argumentation and logic, and (2) I was interested ...
GustinReichbach 22 Jan 2013 - 18:13 IanSullivan
As EIP season approaches, I found obit to be pretty inspiring. It seems like he managed to have a fascinating law career while being completely true to himself and ...
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