"That's the amount of time that author Malcolm Gladwell says it takes for a talented person to master a cognitively complex skill -- like becoming a world-class pianist or an Olympic athlete -- in his new book, 'Outl…
Have you ever had a baby by your side when you were studying for a law school exam? I had one -- out of the frame -- when I posed for this photograph . The baby -- my older son, John -- was less than 2 months old, so he took no i…
Right now, still pre-dawn. I think of the law students who must endure another 8:30 a.m. exam. The exams are always at 8:30 a.m. -- a tough time for a young person. It's easy for us oldsters to be up and sharp at dawn. I coul…
It's on the menu in Switzerland, thanks to a loophole in the law. The food control authority in Switzerland was initially confused by the apparent loophole in local legislation regulating the use of human milk and it was not …
The Chicago Sun-Times reports on Justice Scalia's address to The Federalist Society: After Scalia left the [University of Chicago Law School], it hired now-Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and started offering cla…
The Chronicle of Higher Education addresses the subject. (With some quotes from me.) Their comment section is over here . I like the second one, from "Wilford Brimley": You young whippersnappers with your newfangled fo…
Is this the education you want your lawyer to have? It's lawyerly: looking for loopholes. IN THE COMMENTS: George underlines a point I only suggested: It's not Outsider Art. To be an Outsider Artist, you must possess som…
Hilarious quote from a Stanford law student who thinks grading is "so subjective" and "has much more to do with how well you think like the professor than how well you actually understand the law." He, like ma…
It's the big thing on campus these days. Supposedly. ... Ms. Onejeme, now a senior applying to law school, ended up changing her major to philosophy, which she thinks has armed her with the skills to be successful. “My mothe…
This seems to be the issue of the day , and, being a law professor blogger, I feel compelled to pay attention. So, first, the Hillary Clinton campaign — stinging from the ridiculous Bosnian sniper fire lie/mistake — put out a pre…
They pose this question : "If you could rename your law school, what name would you choose?" A hundred wisecracks should follow. But no. A day later, there are only 5 comments, and two of them earnestly address the prob…
Clarence Thomas describes law school -- and many, perhaps most, new law students will identify with his description. Even though I am, by profession, a swirler of the miasma, I sympathize. No less puzzling was the way in which so…
"I was never a liberal. I was radical," he says, talking about how difficult it was for him to go to work for a Republican after he graduated from Yale Law School. His Yale Law degree was worth almost nothing, he says. …
Rep. Frank Lasee has argued that we have too many lawyers, but why is he so antagonistic toward lawyers? The Wisconsin State Journal thinks it's found a clue in the court transcripts for his 2003 divorce: Lasee first acted …
Eugene Volokh has more on the AutoAdmit case, noting the risks plaintiffs take when they sue. First, the lawsuit calls more attention to the scurrilous comments. Eugene notes, though, it's unlikely anyone hearing the AutoAdm…
WSJ Law Blog has the story: In the latest chapter of the AutoAdmit.com scandal, two female Yale Law School students have sued Anthony Ciolli, the Web site’s former “chief educational director,” and more than two dozen others who …
1. Denial . What the hell? The cable cuts out now ? Now of all times?! 2. Anger . I watched 6 seasons for this? Damn you David Chase! I'm canceling my HBO! 3. Bargaining . Can we have a "Sopranos" movie now? 4. De…