Daily Law School Planet

Boalt Briefs, a lieflet published on two sides of a single paper, is basically the law school version of The Onion. Naturally, it's hilarious. It reads in part,

Taking advantage of what she calls "Berkeley's vibrant and active criminal community," Prof. Angela Harris announced plans to take her first-year Criminal Law class into the heart of south Berkeley this semester.

"The truth is, we are blessed with a real-life workshop that most law schools simply don't have access to," said Harris. "with four homicides in south Berkeley in the last three weeks alone, what better time to get my students into the field?"

Dean edley expressed his support for the plan. "In many ways, studying criminal law in Berkeley is like studying art in Florence or history in Athens," said Edley...