Of Coase You Can't Do That
A thoroughly fascinating article in the current issue of Legal Affairs details the attempt of one student to purchase spots in popular classes using NYU Law's "Coase's List" (an e-mail list-serv dedicated to various student interactions [SWM seeks...]). I don't want to spoil it for anyone, so I will let you all read it on your own.
However, I do want to ask why Cal, or at least Boalt, doesn't have as much of an online interaction. There's a Yahoo Groups for Class of 2007, and a lot of people seem to be using that, but the lone message board, has a total of 30 posts (probably less). At the risk of shameless self-advertisement, in the same vein quite a few people have expressed to me that before Nuts and Boalts, there was a dearth of Boalt student blogs. I'm wondering if this is a reflection of our student population or the No. 1 IP/Tech law program being too good for such things as online community.
Whatever the case, I think there's a definite need to have a discussion board hosted right on the law school's website. Like course website, the school can make it accessible only to current students, but that should hardly be a problem.
However, I do want to ask why Cal, or at least Boalt, doesn't have as much of an online interaction. There's a Yahoo Groups for Class of 2007, and a lot of people seem to be using that, but the lone message board, has a total of 30 posts (probably less). At the risk of shameless self-advertisement, in the same vein quite a few people have expressed to me that before Nuts and Boalts, there was a dearth of Boalt student blogs. I'm wondering if this is a reflection of our student population or the No. 1 IP/Tech law program being too good for such things as online community.
Whatever the case, I think there's a definite need to have a discussion board hosted right on the law school's website. Like course website, the school can make it accessible only to current students, but that should hardly be a problem.
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posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 10:36 PM
1 Comments:
I cannot understand why people throw away / do not read / ridicule / abandon their free issues of that magazine. I treasure mine, and I give loving homes to the orphaned ones I find around Boalt. It's an excellent publication, with articles of just the right length and academic calorie value for my attention spane (ie, more than Newsweek, less than a law review).
Legal Affairs, others mock you, but you have a cozy space in my heart.
(esp. after last issue's Law and Finance article!)
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