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Are Some Law School Students So Broke They Are Resorting to Stealing Their Fellow Students Lunches for Food?

28 Jan

See Christopher Danzig’s Lunch Theft Epidemic Continues, Spreads to Washburn Law on ATL. [JH]

 

For the Love of It: On why law profs write fiction

27 Jan

Actually, on why one law prof writes fiction. See Ohio Northern Univ. law prof Scott Douglas Gerber’s article, Why a law profressor writes fiction in the January 2012 issue of The National Jurist at 14. Gerber admits the reason is…

 

Supreme Court Wakes Up Government, Confirms Investigation by Trespass is Unlawful.

24 Jan

A Criminal Defense Attorney’s take and analysis on how the recent US Supreme Court Decision on 4th Amendment Search and Seizure law affects how Defense Attorneys will challenge illegal searches from now on. The decision provides confirmation that there are 2 separate legal theories for challenging an illegal search: 1) reasonable expectations of privacy and 2) common law trespass. Continue reading


 

Supreme Court Wakes Up Government, Confirms Investigation by Trespass is Unlawful.

24 Jan

A Criminal Defense Attorney’s take and analysis on how the recent US Supreme Court Decision on 4th Amendment Search and Seizure law affects how Defense Attorneys will challenge illegal searches from now on. The decision provides confirmation that there are 2 separate legal theories for challenging an illegal search: 1) reasonable expectations of privacy and 2) common law trespass. Continue reading


 

Round One in Duncan Law v. ABA Goes to the ABA

23 Jan

Last week, US District Court Judge Thomas A. Varlan denied Duncan School of Law’s motion for a temporary restraining order and for a temporary injunction in the law school’s antitrust and due process lawsuit against the ABA for failing to…

 

Round One in Duncan Law v. ABA Goes to the ABA

23 Jan

Last week, US District Court Judge Thomas A. Varlan denied Duncan School of Law’s motion for a temporary restraining order and for a temporary injunction in the law school’s antitrust and due process lawsuit against the ABA for failing to…

 

Cameron Stracher’s Comic Novel in Progress: The Socratic Method

21 Jan

Here’s little entertainment for the academic law librarian who drew the short straw for today’s reference desk duty — Cameron Stracher’s The Socratic Method. The first two installments are titled “Gunner Bingo” and “The Law School Trifecta.” [JH]

 

Even West Is Shedding West: Sounds like TR Legal’s law school publishing business may end up being for sale

20 Jan

Yesterday, West authors received the following message from Chris Parton, General Manager, Law School Publishing, and Pamela Siege Chandler, Senior Director, Law School Publishing: A Message to our Authors about Changes at West Earlier today, Thomson Reuters announced that it…

 

Even West Is Shedding West: Sounds like TR Legal’s law school publishing business "may" end up being for sale

20 Jan

Yesterday, West authors received the following message from Chris Parton, General Manager, Law School Publishing, and Pamela Siege Chandler, Senior Director, Law School Publishing: A Message to our Authors about Changes at West Earlier today, Thomson Reuters announced that it…

 

Friday Fun: Time for Contract Law Karaoke

20 Jan

Starting with Chicken in a Contract (Frigaliment Importing Co v BNS International Sales). For more songs from classic cases of first-year contract law, visit R.B. Craswell’s Contract Songs. [JH]