The blog stylings of a few students at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.

At the Intersection of “Dad” and “Law Student.”

So Goody and I took His Majesty over to the mall today. The goals were simple: exploit the collapse of the economy for low prices (generally), and find a birthday present for her (specifically). But with the specter of law school haunting me wherever I go, even such pleasantly banal endeavors become fodder for a [...]

Can You Have Too Much Democracy? Part 1: The Garden State.

In a couple of days, the citizens of New Jersey are going to go elect some poor sap governor. Most casual political observers (and I put law student’s into this category), have been looking at this race with a great deal of fascination. Despite its Northern clime, New Jersey is purplish state, with current governor [...]

Do We Have Too Many Lawyers?

I cringe to write this post. Both because it’s a just my thinking out loud and because it’s a bit risky for a law student in search of summer positions to write. But I do so because as someone training to be a lawyer, it weighs heavily on my career decisions and my understanding of [...]

Are you ready!? (For Some Jail Time?)

Great God Almighty! Our long national nightmare is over, and football has returned! In honor of this momentous occasion, here’s a few facts about the intersection of football and the law. Enjoy them while mopping the Primanti Bros. grease off your faces with your “Terrible Towels.” Quick note: those things are so awful, I might [...]

Lessig Talk on Law and Creative Culture

I happened across this talk by Larry Lessig at TED in 2007 as I was reading some things about creativity and law:

In the talk, he says the law should encourage a “read-write” view of creative content. Rather than simply consuming creative content, the consumer should be able to republish it to a certain extent and [...]

Quick Reflection on New Government Web Privacy Regs

The Obama Administration recently suggested a reform to the government’s policy on data collection by government websites. The proposal was met with a wave of dialogue over the nature of government data collection and expectations of privacy:

Supporters of a change say social networking and similar services, which often take advantage of the tracking technologies, have [...]

Obama’s Justice

Did you see that Justice Souter this week described his job on the Supreme Court as “a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy“?

Say what? Law.com, where the link above takes you, suggests this confirms what many have suspeected for sometime, namely that Souter is seriously weary of being a Justice and seriously interested in retiring. (Compare [...]