Interesting stuff… The WSJ Law Blog reported on Friday about Northwestern’s plan to offer a two-year JD program. WSJ quoting the dean of Northwestern Law School:
Tuition: Don’t expect to save money. Northwestern announced the program but won’t answer the $42,672 question of whether the compressed plan will be cheaper. Van Zandt [...]
“It’s for the kids.” Ah, yes. The great justification for just about any government program. Of course, it’s the central justification in most states for the Lottery. Revenues are directed into the education department’s coffers for use in schools. That’s all fine and good, but the agreement the ticket purchaser enters into with the state [...]
In light of our discussion on the FLDS case, Christopher suggested a thread on the origins of law. I liked that idea and have a few drafts started. But it struck me that it might work better as a series of questions that pull out various views of the law [...]
Sherpa and the good Dr. have asked me to shed some light on being the single girl in law school. And here’s my first crack at it….
By day I have a decent desk job and by night I’m a slave to the evening law program. Through the whole experience, I’ve managed to balance work, [...]
Maybe it’s just the heat, but I’m a bit frustrated at my school. The law school cafe isn’t open during the summer. I’m still waiting on grades (just one left, though). The financial aid office hasn’t been very communicative. So I’m probably over-reacting to a minor exchange I had with the career office this week.
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Here’s a question for you: should someone who requests the death penalty be prohibited from receiving it?
From Friday’s New York Times:
[Khalid Shaikh Mohammed], the former senior operations chief for Al Qaeda, said he would represent himself and dared the Guantánamo tribunal to put [...]
A tip of the hat to The Commissioner, who brought to my attention that today the Supreme Court, got one right. Specifically, they declined to hear without comment Major League Baseball’s appeal of a November ruling from the 8th Circuit stating that the 1st Amendment trumped baseball’s right to rob us.
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