Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

The Weekly Law School Roundup #210

From Buenos Aires again (and having just returned from Ushuia in Patagonia), here's your weekly list of good posts from the past week by law students, some current or almost current, some recently-graduated--

Simple What she really wants for Valentine's Day. [Starting to Melt]

Shared Outlines available for perusing. [i don't wear skinny jeans]

Free Fastcase for the iPhone. [Legal Geekery]

Fed Up Costly inefficient high-priced junk. [The Corner in the Middle]

Ride How to win over 1Ls. [Last Call for Recklessness]

Distance The urge to travel. [Only 3 Years]

Eggs Things you learn in law school. [The Reasonably Prudent Law Student]

Evolution Changes in a web presence. [Dennis Jansen]

Love Law students and their computers. [Laughing: with or at you]

Why? Lukewarm on the iPad. [law:/dev/null]

Food The perfect law school breakfast. [Moonshine Project]

Truth Busting 1L myths. [My Legal Fiction]

Look for next week's roundup at Thanks, But No Thanks 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." (If you have a law-student weblog that I don't seem to know about or that isn't in my blogroll, please send me an email.)

ON ISLA MARTILLO IN PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA . . . In the Beagle Channel, Isla Martillo has colony of about 10,000 Magellanic penguins, plus some Gentoo and a single, solitary King penguin. Eighty people are allowed on Isla Martillo each day. We were there today with about fifteen other people, on a bus-boat expedition.

Here are a few photos. I'll post more when we get back to Buenos Aires this weekend. Click to enlarge--

Some more Magellanic penguins. Thousands of penguins make a lot of noise--

A few more Magellanic penguins (Andrea's photo this time). We took pictures of the other species too. They'll be up in the later flickr set--

A FEW MORE PHOTOS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD . . . This weekend I'm going to post some more photos on flickr, but for now, here's what's happening at the end of world (in Pantegonia, Argentina, where I haven't heard anyone talking about the iPad all day)--

This photo is from Beagle Island in the Beagle Channel. There's no pollution here (click to englarge)--

Sam and the flag of Argentina--

 

Sea lions in the Beagle Channel--

 

A lighthouse--

 

The same lighthouse plus a boat--

 

HELLO FROM USHUAIA . . . Andrea, Sam and I are in Ushuaia this week, at the tip of South America. Ushuaia is in Patagonia, Argentina, and is the southernmost city in the world. It's more amazing than I expected.

I'll post some pictures this weekend. For now, here are some of the jagged peaks and cold water that surround us (click to enlarge). I took the picture today in the Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego--

THE WEEKLY LAW SCHOOL ROUNDUP . . . It's the Weekly Law School Roundup #209 from Thanks, But No Thanks. A new installment will appear here soon.

ARGENTINA UPDATE #2 . . . This week in Buenos Aires, we spent some time in Recoleta Cemetery and took a two-day side trip to Colonia, Uruguay.

There are a number of new photos of Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery and Colonia, Uruguay in this Flickr set.

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . Recent posts at my Trial Practice Tips Weblog--

• "Deposing Difficult Doctors: 15 Tips"
• "Using Requests for Admission to Simplify Your Case"
• "Making Jury Instructions Easy to Understand"
• "An iPhone for You"
• "Depositions: Thirteen Tips"
• "Objections During Depositions: When and How"
• "Trial Tip: Authenticating Web Pages"

TWITTER-LENGTH FICTION . . . I have some short fiction up at the website Nanoism. Title: "113 (Mom and Dad)."

ARGENTINA UPDATE #1 . . . The all-night flight from Dallas to Buenos Aires was long but without incident, and we got set up in the apartment as soon as we arrived. The first few days we spent showing my daughter Lydia around the area. She's already left, in fact--she's on her way back to college in the U.S. today. Now we're going to catch up on work emails and phone calls. In a few days we'll pack for a side trip to Colonia, Uruguay.

Here's Sam and Lydia near some art-graffiti in the Palermo Viejo neighborhood of Buenos Aires:

I put a number of other photos in this Flickr set.

Weekly Law School Roundup #208

From sunny Buenos Aires, here's your weekly list of good posts from the past week by law students, some current or almost current, some recently-graduated--

Lecture Exam-taking tips. [J.D.? ... Maybe]

Run An interview story. [Legally Fabulous]

Screw-Ups Examples of #lawschoolfail. [The Reasonably Prudent Law Student]

Television Motivation for a workout. [No. 634]

Focus Is she a dilettante? [Legally numb]

Light Funny stuff from classes. [Teasingly Diverse]

Seriously? The extinction of courtship. [The Divine Details]

Haiti Donate your Lexis points to Haiti. [Nuts & Boalts]

Haiti 2 Or text for Haiti. [Now That I'm Awake]

The Law An all-time favorite professor. [My Legal Fiction]

Anecdote A magnet for the Socratic method. [Thanks, But No Thanks]

Look for next week's roundup at Thanks, But No Thanks 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." (If you have a law-student weblog that I don't seem to know about or that isn't in my blogroll, please send me an email.)