When I read the logline for The People v. O.J. Simpson, I knew immediately how my spring break was going to unfold.
The Best-Kept Secrets of NYU Law’s Library Holdings
When I want to stop working but am too lazy to leave the NYU Law library, I go into the stacks and try to find the strangest book I can.
Pushing Boundaries: Learning from Successful Female Lawyers, Judges, and Academics
Women now represent half of the NYU Law student body. We have more possibilities than ever before, and fear is not an option.
“War as Screensaver, War as Wallpaper”: Aesthetics of War in the New York Times
The NYU Art Law Society hosted a lecture by David Shields, the author of a provocative new book about the glamorizing of war through photography.
Watching Movies for a Good Cause: Criminal Justice Reform
Being a student at NYU Law has given me the opportunity to participate in the national discussion about police and criminal justice reform in some unique ways.
Tulips and Time Management: First Spring at NYU Law
New York spring is like a storybook. Snow was literally melting all around me, tulips are now blooming, and the air is getting warmer every day.
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the NYU Law Review
Here’s the inside scoop on the work and the perks of being a member of the NYU Law Review.
Lessons for Law School Learned from French Cinema
Sometimes the flexible rules of storytelling in surrealistic cinema are the best tools to communicate some essential aspect of reality. Likewise, the problems our legal system addresses are incredibly complex, and the solutions to these problems are anything but obvious.
The *Real* Law Review (U-E)
There’s this weird tradition in American law schools that seems particularly out of place in a world of musty casebooks, crippling workloads, and reflexively competitive people. Every year, all across this great nation of ours, future litigators, judges, educators, and businessmen stop studying, put on stage makeup, and pretend like they’re actors in the strange, sometimes scary ritual of legal education we call Law Revue.
Course Selection: That Time When a Doctrinal Course Becomes Useful
Despite my preference for seminars, clinics, and simulation courses, doctrinal courses also can demonstrate their utility when you least expect it and most need it.
Students, Citizens, Partisans: Election Volunteerism at NYU Law
You may or may not have noticed, but 2012 was an election year. Here are some of the election-related events and volunteer activities that NYU Law students led and participated in.
The Curve
As you probably know, there is a curve in law school.
And We’re Back
I am in the majority. I am part of the approximately two-thirds of students who are starting law school after a gap in their schoolings. It’s good to be back. School is still the same as I remember: a huge collection of people my age who over-fill auditoriums and clap very loudly. If orientation week was any indication, law school is going to be no different, except there is a lot more free food, and this time around my handwriting is much worse.
Confessions of a Supreme Court Groupie
Sure, I may get a thrill seeing Will Smith walking the streets of New York City. But that compares nothing to how a law student feels hearing Stephen Breyer or Clarence Thomas speak.
8 Signs You’re Learning to Think Like a Lawyer
When you begin law school, you are told that your sole purpose is to “learn how to think like a lawyer.” But what does that really mean?
Learning the Law from Demi Moore and Marisa Tomei
This semester, my class got to watch clips from “A Few Good Men” and “My Cousin Vinny,” much to our delight (we even applauded after the clips were over).
A Week in the Life of a Second Year Law Student
I understand that my life reads like a brochure for the law school; but how can I not take advantage of this embarrassment of riches? We’re lucky to be in a place that keeps us so busy. I’ll sacrifice sleep for that.
The True Meaning of that Elena Kagan Softball Pic: A Legal “Scholar’s” View
Forget what the pundits are saying about that Kagan softball pic. Anyone who has studied the matter knows that it shows Kagan will fit right in on the Supreme Court.
A Lawyer’s Trivial Pursuits
Lawyers are highly educated and incredibly competitive. I’ve discovered that I’m not alone in my love of trivia contests.
I’m in New York: So Where Are the Celebrities?
I am working hard to finish this post. Why? Because I am going to a taping of The Colbert Report this evening. Am I excited? Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine prohibit lower federal courts from sitting in direct review of state court decisions??