MetaFilter posts tagged with lawschool

Man can moonwalk straight to the 9th Circuit

Navelgazer — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:14:00 -0800

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rap, by the Notorious B.O.A.L.T. (audio NSFW) This may be in the "Dennis Miller Ratio," but for those who get it, it's something awesome. Plus, the man can also dance.

Professor Obama's final

jourman2 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:27:10 -0800

Can you pass a Barack Obama's final? The NYtimes finds and posts a batch of finals from the 12 years Sen. Obama spent in the University of Chicago law school teaching as a part time law professor. Main story here.

Rank Not Lest Ye Be Ranked

prefpara — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:52:19 -0800

Vault.com has created its own ranking of the top US law schools. Vault's blog post about it is here. Above the Law, a popular legal blog, commented here. It leaked the 2009 US News rankings here. An article discussing the US News rankings, here. (For a general sense of what the issues are). A legal blog responds with some ideas as to how rankings can be improved, here. A law professor pleads with bloggers to refrain from publishing the US News rankings here.

AutoAdmit

lalex — Wed, 09 May 2007 02:19:59 -0800

"Three years of legal education has been wasted because of an unmoderated message board." 3rd-year law student Anthony Ciolli has lost a job offer due to his association with law school message board AutoAdmit.

Rumsfeld v. FAIR

thirteenkiller — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:16:38 -0800

The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in Rumsfeld v. FAIR, a case challenging the Solomon Amendment, a US federal law that allows the government to cut federal funding to universities that refuse to allow military recruiting on campus. FAIR is a coalition of law schools challenging this law on the basis that the US military's policy of prohibiting open homosexuals from serving violates the schools' anti-discrimination policies (see section 6-3). Summing the issue up nicely, the dean of one law school said of the US military, "If it were a private employer who discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation, race or gender, we wouldn't allow them here on campus." .rm C-SPAN coverage here.

The wife's name is "Mrs. Andvodka"

fatllama — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:12:06 -0800

Smart ass blogger employed at law firm this summer. Humorous reflections on the institutions of law school and the summer clerkship.

msacheson — Mon, 21 May 2001 09:50:02 -0800

The feel good story of the day. Cupcake Brown, a former prostitute and drug addict who nearly died alone on the streets, knew she would cry yesterday when she graduated from the University of San Francisco law school near the top of her class. She wasn't alone.

MattD — Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:33:00 -0800

$14,000 a year for devout Christians attending "top 5" graduate and professional programs, in order to seed national leadership with believers. An alternative approach is Ave Maria School of Law, founded by Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan expressly because they believe that Christian professional education is essentially impossible in the elite institutions.