The blog stylings of a few students at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.
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No Drinking In Class

One of the things I was rather surprised by during my first year of law school was the number of rules that professors had regarding behavior of students in class. Perhaps my age is getting the best of me, but I had assumed that the days when professors had to lecture students on raising their [...]

Catholic Univ. Law Professor At SCOTUS Today

Former Justice Thomas clerk and Catholic University Law Professor Peter “Bo” Rutledge will be arguing before the Supreme Court today in the case of Irizarry v. United States. The case involves the sentence imposed on a man who threatened to harm his wife. The sentence at issue exceeded the sentencing guidelines and the issue is [...]

Every Law School Needs An Official Blog

So, I’ve been toying around with SearchMe today. It’s a cool visual search engine (click on the screenshot to the right to see it). Still in beta form, but it’s open registration to try it out. I think it’s pretty cool. The whole premise is that you see the pages that come back in a [...]

Introducing New Contributor Sally Proust

It’s my pleasure to start the week off by introducing you to my friend, classmate, and new writer on Fight The Hypo – Sally Proust. I think you’ll find her mix of sass and sweetness refreshing. Here’s a little Q&A I did with Sally recently…

Fight The Hypo: First things first, Sally. Our readers are [...]

Crack For Bloggers, A Note On Our Mission

This week I made a mistake – the second time I’ve made it really.

In a way, we opened this blog to goof off. I wanted to improve my web design skills and write about this all-consuming experience I was having. After putting up version 1.0 of the design, I found friends wanted to join in [...]

Fight The Hypo Award: Mommy On The Floor

I was going to call this the “Friday Fight The Hypo Award” but who has time to award something every week?

So our first official and illustrious “Every Now and Then Award For Fighting the Hypo” goes to, Mommy on the Floor.

She writes:

I was on call for Torts. The professor kept asking if I had a [...]

Is Law School Worth It?

WSJ’s Law Blog (highly recommended reading) has this post from a former BU Law student, Kirsten Wolf, who graduated $100K in the hole, assuming she would land an “average” job that would net her $85K/year upon graduation. Despite passing the Massachusetts bar, Kirsten wasn’t able to find the mythical “average” job and decided to [...]