Finished the ConLaw exam yesterday. Nothing surprising. It was a bit tricky (a number of dicey school desegregation cases) but that’s par for the course with law school exams. All in all I was pleased with how it went.

Now I have two days to prep for Crim.

One final down. Torts. Yesterday.

Finals feel very different this semester than last. It must be something about not having the novelty, or them not being a scary unknown. Now they’re just a scary known… Anyway this one was not particularly bad, other than it was not what any of us expected. It was one question and four hours of fun. And that question was mainly dominated by policy considerations. We had to evaluate whether or not there were any potential tort claims against manufacturers of CFCs for their depletion of the ozone layer as well as if we thought there should be any such claims. It was an interesting question, just

No law review for me. Sad. Oh well, it means more time for other stuff next year. I did get a board position on the UCLA Journal of Law and Technology as Senior Technology Editor and as an Articles Editor. So I will still have some academic extracurricular work for next year.

Yesterday was the last day of classes for the semester (early I know). So now I have a week to study for my first final. And stuff. Exams are much less stressful this time around. Not that I was particularly stressed last year, but there was a certain edge to the unknown. And law school exams are built up

I mentioned earlier that I’d return to my spring break and the half of it that I spent writing an (arguably completely unnecessary) comment. In law school the Law Review of whatever particular school you attend is basically the Dean’s list. It’s a shortcut resume-code for the top of the class. As a result many people want to be on it. Generally law reviews are the scholarly journals of the Legal academic world; professors publish in them much the way a biologist might publish in Nature, or whatever is the particular journal for that particular academic specialty. This unique part about law reviews is that they are entirely student run. This means that there

Today’s awful judicial pun (not to mention an intruiging factual scenario) comes courtesy of Justice Stone of California in People v. GleghornMay a person who enters the habitat of another at 3 o’clock in the morning for the announced purpose of killing him, and who commences to beat the startled sleeper’s bed with a stick and set fires under him, be entitled to use deadly force in self defense after the intended victim shoots him in the back with an arrow? Upon the basis of these bizarre facts, we hold that he may not, and instead, must suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (with apologies to William Shakespeare and Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1).193 Cal.App.3d 199 Reading

It seems I’m on about a once a month cycle here. It may improve, or it may not. Broad-stroke updates: Summer Job. I got a callback interview with a law firm in Century City last month, but they decided they didn’t want to hire me. This is sad, since they actually looked like a semi-pleseant place to work. Not to mention the fact that they were on the top floor of a 28 story building with panoramic views of the ocean, Holywood, and basically all of LA (those were just the two parts of LA that I felt were scenic enough to warrant mention). Oh well. Moving on I interviewed for a