2008 Woodie Awards
Orientation Bingo
As a law student, you probably can't do math. But, despite this, you crave accuracy and precision. More importantly, you crave winners and losers. Fortunately, at least for the incoming 1L class, this year's Orientation Scoreboard, your handy guide to what's hot and what's not, lets you determine exactly where you stand compared to your classmates.…
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Bourbon, Betting & BeatdownsDeviant Behavior
This weekly column is about deviant behavior -- activities that are likely frowned upon by polite society for one reason or another. Everything from black market organ sales to kinky sex practices to online gambling to Chinatown buses is fair game. If something is seedy, sketchy, sleazy, tacky, tawdry, tasteless, or just plain weird, then this column calls dibs.…
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Becoming a 1L
My husband was watching "Prison Break" in the living room. "I appreciate what you did for me," said one of the characters. "I'd like to pay you back. Tell me what I can do for you in return."
I poked my head out of the bedroom, where I had been reading about promissory estoppel and restitution.…
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My First Two Weeks as a 1L
I've never written a newspaper article before, but I figured hey it can't be all that hard - why not give it a shot? I decided to write this article about my first two - now going on three - weeks here at HLS. Like most 1L's I had a lot of trepidation at first.…
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Law Review Articles and the Joy of Footnotes
The law reviews at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, and about a half dozen other law schools recently banded together to protest long law review articles. After decades of condoning if not encouraging law professors and lawyers to get as wordy as possible by publishing bibles on mattress sticker-removal law, getting-rent-from-your-crackhead-roommate law, and other random legal subjects that could be summarized in one paragraph, the law reviews have turned tail.…
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An Interview with Opinionistas
Want to know what life is really like inside a big, New York law firm? Most of the associates and partners you meet, even as a Summer Associate, are probably not going to give their honest opinion. For that, the best place to go is the blogosphere and one of the best (and most widely read) blogs going is Opinionistas (opinionistas.…
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Porn Generation by Ben Shapiro
Review by Elliott Marc Davis
(Elliott is a 2L. If he is slouching towards Gomorrah, it's only because the chairs in Gropius suck.)
It's not every day that your classmate embarks on a quest to explore one of society's most controversial issues, treats the matter in an even-handed, reasonable fashion, and concludes with a logical, practicable solution.…
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Corporate Power But Were Afraid to Ask, Part I
BY RALPH NADER
Statement of Ralph Nader on the nomination of John G. Roberts Jr. by President George W. Bush to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee
U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., September 12, 2005
Mr.…
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