The Wall
The Wall has to be one of the most common reasons people don’t pursue their academic careers further than they do. Almost all people run into it eventually. Most of us hit it in undergrad,…
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Kiss Me… Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200
The BBC recently reported on a criminal case in India against a couple who were arrested for kissing. This kind of story isn’t all that surprising anymore thanks to the modern media, which has reported…
Osgoode Jumps on the JD Bandwagon
The Osgoode Hall community received an e-mail today regarding the “JD or LLB?” debate, that had pretty much disappeared from most of our minds due to the dramatic collective action (or perhaps more fitting, inaction)…
Who Says Lawyers Are Rats?
The Globe & Mail recently reported on a recurring event that flies in the face of the popular stereotype of lawyers being vile creatures beyond salvation. The Lawyers Feed the Hungry program has been providing…
Wireless Internet in Class: Bad for your Reputation?
I didn’t realize the error of my ways until my professor blogged about it. Technology makes education work in ways we have to appreciate. I have on occasion tried to imagine what law school was…
“We Object!” – The Impossibility of Satisfying Everybody
As everyone probably knows by now, Osgoode Hall Law School at York University has resumed classes despite the ongoing strike by CUPE 3903. On top of the obvious controversy a move like this will stir…
“I hereby sentence you to crappy music.”
You don’t have to be a law student to appreciate the rare tendency among judges to employ novelty in their analyses or judgments. Many of us have heard what we first consider to be urban…
CUPE 3903 Strike Update from Osgoode
Disclaimer The information I’ve compiled for this little blog entry may have come from CUPE 3903’s website, York’s press releases, updates from Osgoode staff and faculty, and random picketers on the picket lines as I…
Website Review: TheBillableHour.com
For most of us, succeeding at getting into law school is a long and arduous path, riddled with onerous tasks like resume-updating, LSAT writing and hunting down references from years past. It usually entails a…
A Film Review: The Trials of Law School
In the summer before my first year of law school I had a lot of opportunities to go the extra mile by reading books, going to orientations, taking campus tours and enrolling in prep courses…
A Canadian Law Student in Florence: Lessons from Europe
Monash University’s faculty of law, based in Australia, has a satellite location in Florence, Italy, where law students have the option of spending a semester. This is quite possibly the best idea I’ve ever heard:…
Love, Actionable
Love and Marriage Contract law is no stranger to love, and vice-versa. We in the Western world, and most other places, have formalized romance for centuries in various different ways. What was once the union…