Earlier this month, my alma mater, Indiana University School of Law1 announced that it was changing it’s name to the “Michael Maurer School of Law”. It turns out that this guy donated a large sum of money ($35 million) to the school and it was during a capital campaign so the university at large matched [...]
The U.S. News law school rankings are a pretty big deal. Everyone (in the law school world) cares about them. Why? Because prospective students care about them far, far more than they should. In fact, there are no shortage of students who base their choices solely on those rankings. Having worked with the admissions office at [...]
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…and, surprisingly, I won. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. This is a stupid thing to say since, really, every day is the first day of the rest of your life. Unless you plan to start living backwards, which I don’t. Today is also the first day with my new Alma [...]
A few weeks ago nominations the first round of voting was opened for three graduation awards: student speaker, outstanding contribution to student life, and the gavel award. Today we got an email with the finalists, so I’m going to use this space stump for my preferred candidates. Gavel Award Prof. Hannah Buxbaum Pat Clark Jim Schutter While Jim Schutter (our [...]
From my first job bussing tables when I was sixteen, throughout undergrad, and through two and a half years of law school I had a fairly remarkable record: I never interviewed for a position that I wasn’t offered. That streak ended quite unceremoniously today when I got an email informing me that I had [...]
Last night I had dinner with Kim, Hilary and Seth at some mexican place. It was tasty. My interview this morning went well. Spent a healthy portion of the time talking football (which is good). Turns out the Judge had a run-in with Bear Bryant back in the day, so that was an interesting story. The [...]
This weekend I’m headed out to Maryland to hang out with Hilary and Kim. I also have an interview on Monday for a clerkship with a circuit court judge. I’m pretty excited about the interview, as it signals that I might not be totally unemployable and, if I get offered the position, it means that [...]
Classes have been in session for a few weeks now, and I’m still missing one of my grades. This is not a surprise, though, as this particular professor is notorious for taking forever. It’s interesting, really. Like most professors, this one doesn’t really accept late work. He doesn’t accept much in the way of excuses [...]
In copyright today we spent an inordinate amount of time talking about the difference between these two classifications. After a few minutes, it occurred to me that the distinction between them is trivial at best. One student, when asked to explain the difference between an analog and digital camera, said something to the effect that an [...]
So, my law school schedule is finalized. I have class in the afternoons, Monday through Wednesday. I was bumped from my Friday class, but it wasn’t needed to graduate, so I’m going to close out my law school career with two classes: Civil Rights Statutes and Copyright. The course I was bumped from, though, still irritates [...]