Law is Cool

Congratulations on finishing your year, and remember the best is yet to come.

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

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 […]

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.

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

From Utah Law.

Chris Blattman, an Assistant Professor of Political Science & Economics at Yale University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development, has an interesting post on some of his recent work in West Africa:

You know experimental program evaluation has become a craze when even the Imams want it.
Today we sat down with an […]

The ‘War on Terror’ has a new arsenal in it’s fight - a curry bomb.
India developed an 81mm grenade filled with pepper and phosphorus, intended to bring its target to their knees.
But based on historic use of basic pepper spray in Canada, we don’t think anyone here is going to be rallying for the curry […]

A late addition (uploaded recently), but better late than never.
Coffee House 2008 - Robson High

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1nGM64J5Oo

It’s true, law school is like freakin’ high school,
 You have these extremely highly intelligent people who revert to some sort of immature stage of their life to get some sort of relief.
Thanks to Sam for the heads up.

From the Njection website:
Njection Hits Final Hurdle to Provide Real Time Tracking of Police Officers.
Final hurdle gives the OK to Njection.com to allow for the installation of GPS trackers in police vehicles nationwide.
Portland, OR April 1, 2008 – Njection.com (http://njection.com/) has acquired permission to install Global Positioning Systems (GPS) devices in the vehicles […]

by Omar Ha-Redeye and Jacob Kaufman
(from the March Issue of Nexus, Western Law’s Student Newspaper)
The novel The Lord of the Rings was a phenomenon. The movie trilogy based upon it has grossed over a billion dollars and won a slew of Oscars.
But what’s really interesting about the work is that it is about property […]

More animal stories in the law.
A New Zealand man who claimed he was raped by a wombat and that the experience left him speaking with an Australian accent has been found guilty of wasting police time.
Arthur Cradock, 48, from the South Island town of Motueka, called police last month to tell them he was being […]

Steve Sailer, a Conservative American journalist, found out the hard way that we don’t.
He completed the Citizenship and Immigration Canada Self-Assessment Worksheet in 2001 and scored 61 points. The passing mark for consideration of an interview is 60.
(The current passing mark is 67) >>> […]

This was the best we could come up with from Windsor.
Windsor Law Social Orientation 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnWPTdO2AQ