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Pete on March 4th, 2007

If you had fun with the Africa quiz, go see how many of the 192 UN Member States you can get in 10 minutes. This weekend was fun. When I wasn’t getting stuff done, I was out serving as 2L social liaison to the 1L class. They know how to have a good time. See [...]

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Pete on February 27th, 2007

I really, at some point, hope that I gain the self-restraint not to visit Dizzy’s blog every time Doug links to it. Unfortunately for me (probably fortunately for certain others), I don’t yet have that restraint. So here are some quick thoughts on some posts. In her cutting the crap post, Dizzy spends a post insinuating [...]

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Pete on February 12th, 2007

A few weeks ago, I talked about why anonymous blogging just doesn’t work. A commenter said “If a person cares anything about their future in the legal profession, maybe anonymous blogging is the way to go.” Now, there are a whole host of underlying assumptions to that statement. One, of course, is the assumption that [...]

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Pete on February 1st, 2007

Kim likes to sketch when she should be paying attention in class. Specifically, when presented with a ‘lemma’ (a proven statement that’s used to prove a bigger statement), she envisions this skittish little llama looking creature. This week in Crim. Pro. we started talking about probable cause, fifth amendment, etc… and we read the phrase “Cruel [...]

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Pete on January 29th, 2007

A few months ago I posted a call for articles for a new “law” journal (”law journal”?, law “journal”?). Well, we finally got our act together and finished up the first issue. For the most part, when I wasn’t at trial team practice, I was working on Consortium… and now that’s done. You can see the [...]

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Pete on January 20th, 2007

I don’t read Dizzy’s Blog, except in those instances when it’s linked by someone like Doug, which it has been a few times in the last week or so… and it looks like it’s SSDD over there. Generally, it’s hundreds upon hundreds of words about such riveting things as: why all guys at law school are [...]

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Pete on January 16th, 2007

So, after more than a month off, I actually had to go back to class today. This was a shock to my system because I think I almost forgot what it was like. It wasn’t as bad as I remembered it, though I really do abhor being forced to get up any time before noon. A [...]

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Pete on January 12th, 2007

The trial team has been selected, and I made it, which I’m happy about. I’m an alternate, which is obviously not as good as being first-string, but what can you do? There were a lot of extremely talented people at the mock trial competition who did very well, and I didn’t do as much prep [...]

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Pete on January 11th, 2007

The law school started back today, but I slept in. Don’t worry, mom, I didn’t skip class. You see, I have the world’s best schedule. I only have class three days a week. No Thursday or Friday classes. We also get monday off, so my break was over a month long. That’s pretty awesome, really. I’ve [...]

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Pete on November 17th, 2006

How does a person whose only real legal skill is oral argumentation submit one of the top 16 briefs on his issue in a moot court competition and not advance to the octofinals? Who knows, but that’s exactly what I did. It would make sense to me if I had gotten oral honors and not advanced, [...]

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