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The Weekly Law School Roundup #68

This Week: The Law-Students-As-Philosophical-Sages Edition. As an illustration of this week's theme, I've titled each of the links with an allusion to a well-known philosophical work. You'll recognize them all, I'm sure, but if you don't, simply look in the continuation, where I've compiled a sort of great-books reading list we can all take a crack at this summer after Grey's Anatomy and American Idol have concluded their seasons--

Concerning Education Law school as seen through the lens of popular film. [Lawyerlike]

On the Origin of Inequality What can happen when you don't take moot court. [Improvilaw]

The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God School's out -- forever. [You Can't Get Arrested for Being Awesome]

Nausea Thoughts on the bad breath of a fellow student. [Law School for Dummies]

Human, All Too Human More nausea-inducing classmates. [Legally Blonde]

The American Scholar The stupidity of kindergarten graduation. [Legally Certifiable]

Improvement of the Understanding The three secrets to success in law school. [My Adventures at UMD Law]

A Critique of Practical Reason Blogging, as seen through the eyes of a therapist. [Dizzy Does It]

Discipline and Punishment A rant about finals week in a style reflecting the writer's state of mind. [There's No Competition in Law School]

Of Property and Riches On reading China's new property law. [81 Ideas]

Why I Am Not a Christian Limbo lives! [Butterflyfish]

Observations of the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime A plug for the new Harry Potter trailer. [Uncivil Pro]

The Young American Reading R.E.M. lyrics closely. [katlet]

On Sleep and Sleeplessness It's that time of year. [WonL]

Poetics A haiku so important and true that all 1Ls must read it. [Law with Grace]

Leviathan Taking on Major League Baseball -- or not. [Clever WoT]

Social Contract Some thoughts on dinner invitations. [Negligent Use of a Dangerous Mind]

A Critique of Pure Reason Did you really want to make it onto law review? [Who Owns the Fox?]

Being and Nothingness The aimlessness of being unemployed. [Previously Unpublished]

Ecce Homo A letter to K. at eight weeks old. [Magic Cookie]

On the Motion of Animals A troubled dog owner with a plea for help. [think like a woman. act like a man.]

Value, Price, and Profit How to get your own unique, cool, custom business cards. [Legal Andrew]

Discourse on Method Law exam study tips. [Top Law Student]

The Birth of Tragedy A law school fails to provide an adequate "reading period." [TJ's Double Play]

Madness and Civilization Things to do. [divine angst]

The Citizen Quick thoughts about the Democratic debate. [R. Enochs]

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."

Below the fold: The books I used to create this post, this time with authors attached.

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "A Simple Way to Transcribe Witness Interviews."

IN THE MAGAZINES . . . Weblogs might be nothing more than the Internet's vast slush pile, but here's some hope: they'll lead you to magazines you can read for free. Try these--

Catching Up Elizabeth Drew on Congressional reaction to the war in Iraq. [The New York Review of Books]

Preserving Public Order Would an American president exploit martial law? [The American Conservative]

Buried Treasure Peering beneath the surface of the American literary canon. [The American Scholar]

Between the Covers A resurgence of interest in novels. [The New York Review of Books]

Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth wins a Rave award. [Wired]

TYPES OF LAWYERS . . . In the early days of Legal Underground, I spent a lot of time analyzing and categorizing the various types of lawyers, mostly as a public service to the many people who stumble into Legal Underground every day by searching on Google for an answer to this question. Here are a few examples:

• Types of Lawyers #3: The Lawyer Who Advertises on TV
• Types of Lawyers #4: The Lawyer Who Carries Another Lawyer's Briefcase
• Types of Lawyers #5: The Lawyer Who Brings Her Breast Pump to the Office
• Types of Lawyers #7: The Modest Lawyer
• Types of Lawyers #9: The Lawyer on the Run
• Types of Lawyers #10: The Lawyer Who's in the Wrong Profession
• Types of Lawyers #11: The Lawyer from the Planet Og
• Types of Lawyers #13: The Stereotypical Lawyer
• Types of Lawyers #16: The Lawyer with the Shiny New Gadget

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Litigation Podcasts from the ABA."

LAWYERS' VOICES ONLINE . . . Surprising, unexpected, or outrageous; always entertaining--

• "In the old days, he was a good lawyer with a fine reputation. Somewhere he went astray. He took a wrong turn down a dead-end street, whether due to greed, divorce, I don't know. In an era where lawyers are already smeared or have a bad rap, this doesn't help." [Miami criminal defense attorney Richard Sharpstein, commenting on asbestos lawyer Louis Robles, as reported at Law.com]
• "[E]-mail is fast becoming the 'smoking gun' of employment litigation and threatens to become even more so with the implementation of new e-discovery rules." [Julie Elgar at "That's What She Said", which deconstructs NBC's The Office]
• "At the end of the day, what has doomed Alberto Gonzales will keep him hanging on long after it's clear he should go. He serves at the pleasure of the president, and the president's pleasure is his only concern." [Dahlia Lithwick in Slate]
• "What I am about to say intends no disrespect to the many good-intentioned bloggers--including those who are my friends and colleagues--who are participating in the April 30 event. . . . But I have to ask, why? Why be silent? What is the point? Why not use this as an opportunity to speak out?" [Diane Levin at Online Guide to Mediation, commenting on the proposed "day of blog silence" for the Virginia Tech victims]
• "It seems as though we are losing ground in the fight for women’s reproductive autonomy." [Mary Harris Jones at IntLawGrrls, commenting on Gonzales v. Carhart]
• "Personally, I find him abrasive, angry, tough, fierce, and frightening. You know, the qualities you usually want in a lawyer." [Ron Kuby on disbarred lawyer Kenneth Heller, called "New York's most obnoxious lawyer" by The Village Voice] (link from How Appealing].

MAGAZINES AMASSED . . . First it was The New Yorker, followed by Playboy. Then, last week, it was Rolling Stone that became the latest magazine to announce it will be archiving all its old issues for release in a single, easy-to-use digital format.

These giant archives of old magazines are a great idea. Even if they're good for only the occasional blog post, I've enjoyed browsing my complete archive of New Yorkers, just like I used to do with the paper issues that were bound at the college library where I used to study. Nerdy, I know, but that's how English majors acted.

What magazines will be next? I'd like to see Esquire, The Atlantic, and Scientific American in archived volumes. I'd probably buy them all.

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 #67. The next installment will appear here on Sunday, so be sure to check back.

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "My Coverage of Expert Depositions in Deposition Checklists and Strategies."