Law is Cool

Creating a Legal Storm
US Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, made his first major television appearance this week on 60 Minutes.
Previously he has severely restricted media access, especially in his court, citing his,
First Amendment right not to speak on the radio or television when I do not wish to do so.
In 2004, he even had […]

A parody of the Nigerian e-mail frauds in reference to the Conservative Elections Scandal, Courtesy of Calgary Grit:
From: Conservative Headquarters
To: Conservative Candidates
Date: December 2, 2005
Subject: Urgent Request
Dearest Candidate,
Good morning, how are you and your family? I hope fine. Please, I am sorry to bother you with our problem.
Please know that it’s not by mistake I […]

An interesting commentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IXpibN7Hug

Don’t believe the hype
Twenty years ago the classic Hip Hop group, Public Enemy, said in their hit song,
Some media is the whack
You believe it’s true, it blows me through the roof
Suckers, liars get me a shovel
Some writers I know are damn devils
For them I say don’t believe the hype
Yo Chuck, they must be on a […]

Sometimes when you’re studying for law exams, you’ll do everything you can to avoid actually reading the text.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E5w-YlmMHQ

Most of us law students are entering final exam period over the next few weeks.
There will be a considerable slow down during this period. You can expect a few more sporadic posts, but we’ll pick things back up in the summer.
More importantly, we’re looking for new talented and qualified first-year Canadian law students for […]

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton scored a massive double digit victory over Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary!
Except she didn’t.
I’m not saying this because the spread between Clinton and Obama was actually 9.3% (which if I remember math class correctly rounds down to 9% instead of up to 10%).
Nor am I saying this because Pennsylvania was natural […]

Here’s an interesting ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtJeEJaxQJ8

They’re selling study-aids, which might just be able to save your life in law school.
Condensed Annotated NoteS (CANS) are probably your only friend in law school.

When “free speechers” publish letters by lawyers or put legal proceedings online, they themselves are attacking free speech by attempting to intimidate legal proceedings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkp5BGAzraY

From Utah Law.

Fry That What?
The case of Mumia Abu Jamal, on death row in Pennsylvania for killing a white police officer in 1981, is raising some interesting issues surrounding jury selection.
The court found that the prosecution used two-thirds of its vetoes to deliberately remove persons of colour in a county that consisted primarily of minorities. The […]

Our site was apparently hacked again last night. In addition to uploading spam content, they also deleted all plug-ins and several pages, including the ones on the Macleans case and Blawger of the Year Daniel Simard.
We seem to encounter these problems every time we post something critical of Steyn, which we find unfortunate.
We’ll try […]

The Ahenakew affair: a bad law, an opportunity missed

By Marjaleena Repo
The David Ahenakew Affair, after five years in the courts, has sprung back with full force after the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) voted to reinstate him as one its senators. The media have reacted with vehement disapproval as have Jewish organizations. The provincial […]

The largest copyright infringement payment in Korea was recently passed down.
A Korean music company, Fantom Entertainment Group, has been ordered by Judge Gu Hoe-geun the Seoul Central District Court to pay 300 Million Korean Won for copyright infringement of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII.
The material in question is a video of Korean singer […]

Exam time treat.
Here are some resources our team has collected:
Manitoba Law Students Association
McGill
Osgoode Hall (Legal and Literary Society)
UBC (UBC Law Society)
UofM (Courtesy Ed Chan)
University of Ottawa (Common Law Student Society)
UVic
Windsor Law
Misc.
TwistLaw (McGill/International)
Melanie’s Law Notes (UofM?)
Adam Letourneau of Law, Eh? Canadian Law School (need to contact him)
Dead or Inactive Links
UBC (appears dead)
UofC (appears dead)
Queen’s (appears dead)
If […]