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Journals

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

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

Write On

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

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

I am an Editing Ninja

Friday, September 30th, 2005

…and a research Pirate (?). It would be nice if I could blame not posting anything on an increased workload at school, but sadly no; it’s still just humming along at a few hours a day worth of reading/thinking. However things are perking up a bit. In Lawyering Skills we’ve started research assignments in the library, basically being given a question and having to find what the law is in a given state on that topic. As another history major turned law student put it: “I am a history major, my research-fu is strong!” And so it is. So strong in fact that when I was trying to find the relevant California law on