So This is Law School?
No, I don't write parody songs but before coming to law school I had thought about making my thoughtful yet witty observations of law school life here. To make up for any shortcomings in this area, I'd like to offer this year-end review.
Facilities
UC Berkeley has some of the most beautiful buildings. Is Boalt Hall one of them? Not on your life. Come to Boalt if your diet is lacking asbestos, lead, and other toxic chemicals. Surpisingly, Boalt is not the most highly contaminated building on campus. I can't say anything bad about the classrooms. But then again I have a nuclear powered laptop so I didn't really need electrical outlets anyway (they installed outlets in the large lecture halls this past summer and during the semester all the small seminar rooms were properlly equipped as well).
Faculty
Some are just a pain in the ass, others are strange, yet others offer memorable and not so memorable lines here, here, here, and here.
The People
Before coming to law school a friend of mine, let's call her umm Lindy, told me about some of the stereotypical law students based in large part on The Paper Chase and Legally Blonde (e.g. the guy going nuts studying or the chick with pink rollie thing). While these have largely been proven true, there is something general I'd like to say about my fellow students. They are for the most part all brilliant and all well grounded socially (no mad scientists walking the halls and talking to themselves). And I think that's what I'm most thankful for...meeting all these incredible people and actually getting to know them...even if they did give me an inferiority complex for a while. [Read: I've come to realize that quite a few of my classmates read this blog therefore I'm not really free to gossip without serious repercussions]
Facilities
UC Berkeley has some of the most beautiful buildings. Is Boalt Hall one of them? Not on your life. Come to Boalt if your diet is lacking asbestos, lead, and other toxic chemicals. Surpisingly, Boalt is not the most highly contaminated building on campus. I can't say anything bad about the classrooms. But then again I have a nuclear powered laptop so I didn't really need electrical outlets anyway (they installed outlets in the large lecture halls this past summer and during the semester all the small seminar rooms were properlly equipped as well).
Faculty
Some are just a pain in the ass, others are strange, yet others offer memorable and not so memorable lines here, here, here, and here.
The People
Before coming to law school a friend of mine, let's call her umm Lindy, told me about some of the stereotypical law students based in large part on The Paper Chase and Legally Blonde (e.g. the guy going nuts studying or the chick with pink rollie thing). While these have largely been proven true, there is something general I'd like to say about my fellow students. They are for the most part all brilliant and all well grounded socially (no mad scientists walking the halls and talking to themselves). And I think that's what I'm most thankful for...meeting all these incredible people and actually getting to know them...even if they did give me an inferiority complex for a while. [Read: I've come to realize that quite a few of my classmates read this blog therefore I'm not really free to gossip without serious repercussions]
Labels: 0L/1L Advice, Legal Culture
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 5:38 PM
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Prof Yoo has a new op-ed out today (1/2), recapping all the memos and shoring up Gonzales's position for the upcoming hearings. For what it's worth, Yoo is not backing down.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/editorial/10548366.htm?1c
Thanks for the pointer. I don't have any illusions about Yoo suddenly reversing course, he's an academic and a former political appointee, it's practically his duty not to change positions. I do hope that discussion of his work raises enough public criticism that the admin changes its course (e.g. expansion of definition of torture an example of that).
Yoo will be debating this stuff at Boalt, against the lawyer for the "American Taliban." Should be pretty good.
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