And now: some rambling closing thoughts on the end of the 2L Year. My second year of law school has been over for a few weeks now, and the Spring semester well and truly kicked my ass. Amidst the usual sturm und drang of preparation for Finals, I found myself having to deal with the [...]
My Note is well finished and despite my frustrated rage at the difficulties of hammering it into shape, it turned out to be a masterpiece. This bit of legal scholarship will no doubt become the most influential and frequently cited student Note of all time because of its sparkling clarity, searing insight, and solid construction. [...]
For reasons that now escape me, I am participating on a journal this year. My time in Australia last semester means that I didn’t really get to participate in all the initial cite checking and source-pulling or get to actually meet anyone else on the journal. I do still have the eerie specter of my [...]
I don’t know if they are all lame, but mine certainly is. Obviously an incredibly intelligent man, he is able to explain a complex topic in ways that even a English major like me can understand. He is a gentleman and a scholar and I cannot fault his reasoning or teaching abilities. But his jokes [...]
I am taking a class on Trade Secret law, which covers the protection that states give to intellectual property that doesn’t quite measure up to full federal protection of either patent or copyright. It’s still early going, but I’ve managed to learn that trade secrets can be just about anything from lists of your best [...]
I am back in San Francisco after returning from Australia and spending an awkward time at the ancestral manse in Florida spinning my wheels with nothing to do except play video games and grow fatter while my finely tuned academic muscles withered into atrophy. But no more! School is back in session here at Hastings [...]