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THIS WEEK'S BLAWG REVIEW . . . Blawg Review #138 at De Novo commemorates Human Rights Day. Meanwhile, the Blawg Review website has information about next week's host, and instructions on how to get your blawg posts reviewed in upcoming issues.

The Weekly Law School Roundup #99

This Week: The In-No-Particular-Order Edition. Here's your weekly list of good posts from the past week by law students, some current or almost current, some recently-graduated, in no particular order--

Gods and Amoebas Mastering contracts. [Law and Floss]

Staying Sane What's good about study groups. [Improvilaw]

Parallel Reality Off to Hollywood. [Diary of a Law School Mom]

Ball Pit The secret to final exams. [Coleslaw]

Zombie-Like A weblog returns with a plea. [There's No Competition in Law School]

Keeping Your Mouth Shut Exams tips for 1Ls. [This is where the cowboy blogs away]

Thanks, But No Thanks A gift-giving announcement. [Thanks, But No Thanks]

In a Flash How to do get better law-school grades, guaranteed. [Magic Cookie]

Holiday Mixer Music for the days ahead. [katlet]

Brute Force A memorization technique. [The Frugal Law Student]

Contacts A word about networking. [wicked words]

Omission and Complicity Thoughts about an exam. [PT-LawMom]

Cryptic Reflections on outlines. [Above Supra]

Tipping It Back The most drunken cities in America. [R. Enochs, Esq.]

Just Too Busy Giving it up for finals. [TJ's Double Play]

The Future Tense What's around the corner? [The Present Tense]

Look for next week's roundup at divine angst then it's back here the week after that. You can find some other recent roundups in the "At the Law Schools 2" category, as well as sixty or so older roundups from 2004-2005 here. Finally, if you want to know how I choose posts to highlight, see "How I Write the Weekly Law School Roundup."

IN THE MAGAZINES . . . Stuck in haze of weblogs? Take a break with these articles from the magazines, all absolutely free--

Your DNA Knows Reading your genomic profile. [Wired]

Aliens Among Us Figuring out how life began. [Scientific American]

Why He Was Like a Vampire Picasso's middle years. [The New York Review of Books]

It's His Business to Know Such Things A profile of Jacques Barzun. [The New Yorker]

Look It Up Gifts for language lovers. [The New York Times Magazine]

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Depositions: How to Stop Coaching"

BLOGROLLING LEGAL UNDERGROUND . . . Thanks to the following weblogs and websites that have recently added permanent links to Legal Underground via their blogrolls*--

• Learning Curve Blog
• Australian Trade Marks Law Blog
• I think I'll [keep on goin'] to law school today!
• Illinois Civil Rights Defense Law Blog
• Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog
• Scientific Evidence
• lukavaja lukovica
• Georgia Injury Law Blog
• California Lablor & Employment Law Blog
  

*Blogroll (1) n. A list of weblogs, typically found in a column on another weblog; (2) v. To add a weblog to a blogroll.

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBLOG . . . "What Defense Lawyers Can Learn from the Lawyers on the Other Side."

THE WEEKLY LAW SCHOOL ROUNDUP . . . The Weekly Law School Roundup alternates between Legal Underground and divine angst, where Kristine has posted this week's Weekly Law School Roundup #98. The next installment will appear here in about a week, so be sure to check back.