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Posted on 2007.10.01 at 08:20
On the other hand, I know it's going to be an awesome day when I've already read things like the following by 4:30 AM:

On Hugo Black: "Like other men the South has produced, he appears to have held intensely a Hobbesian view of the conflicts in life and, at the same time, passionately idealized the common man."

Which seemed immediately familiar sounding and made me want to find a book about Hugo Black.

And the fun continued: I moved on to several articles on textual theories of Constitutional interpretation, including one that somehow managed to work linguistic and cognitive theory, Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, Stanley Fish, Harold Bloom, and Nietzsche into an article applying literary critical theories to textual analysis and wrote sweet lines like "As Chairman Mao pointed out, a revolution is not a tea party" and (referring to John marshall) "he is, perhaps, the great Nietzschean judge of our tradition."

Literary and legal theory, all in one package. This is my intellectual equivalent of bedding two women at the same time, or whatever tawdry little metaphor you prefer. And the entire week is critical theory! I feel like an English major again.

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London: Hyde Park/War Memorials

Posted on 2007.08.16 at 12:52

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If I recall correctly, this gate opens onto King's Row, also known as Rotten Row because of the high density of noble/political types that either once or presently occupied the street.


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It's advising time for us students at Seattle University School of Law, so you know what that means: a semi-serious poll in which I solicit advice from you fine, fine people, which I may or may not take over that of trained professionals. You see, I don't even have an undying love for any partuclar general area of the law, much less a specific subject within one of those areas. All I know is that Contracts, Property, and Torts keep me interested the msot, and I will never under any circumstances do Criminal Law. Ever. So, I'm going to list my options and what interests me about them, and you're going to decide for me.

Torts, FYI, are all civil lawsuits not arising from a breach of contract. Personal injury lawsuits, for example, are a form of a tort claim.

Poll #963145 What Should Be My Focus Area?
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: Friends

What Should Be My Focus Area?

Contracts (fairness, making people keep their promises, negotiation, labor unions, not seeing horribly burned/mangled people)
3 (27.3%)

Property (impacting lives without sending someone to jail, type of law most impacting people on a daily basis, interesting problems, not seeing horribly burned/mangled people)
0 (0.0%)

Torts (personal injuries, finding justice for the horribly burned/mangled/wronged, fulfilling, personal connection with my work , flexing my creativity in selling a story to the jury, being feared and loathed by society while being respected by my peers)
2 (18.2%)

Consigliere for the Mafia (personal injuries, making people keep their promises, labor unions, being feared and loathed by society while being respected by my peers, awesome food)
3 (27.3%)

Public Policy (interesting ethical problems, big picture/big impact approach, progressivism, failing that, world domination)
3 (27.3%)

Care to tell me why?