OK, so I’ve been away for a while… but I have good reasons not for writing! I was preoccupied last month with the ABA’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition, which was a competition my partner and I started dealing with back on December 2nd and ended (for us) last weekend with absolutely...
Welcome back, 2E’s of Capital Law! Here at the beginning of our fifth semester, I find it’s a good time to take stock of where we are and where we’re going. Time slips by so quickly. Law school has been a lot tougher than we imagined, but we made it...
Every year, that familiar holiday, National Coming Out Day, seems to come earlier and earlier. Seems like I was just taking down my Gay Pride Month banners and poppers and it’s already time to put up the Coming Out tree, bedecked with supportive photos of all the people I still...
Last night right after class, I came home and crept into bed. It was the cap on a very draining week, which is what every week winds up being these days. I lay there for a few minutes, then got back out and dragged myself into the shower so I...
I am taking the Criminal Law final exam today. As usual, whatever I am taking at the moment tends to inform my actions and thoughts. Lately I have been going around muttering “guilty of this, guilty of that” when I see bad things happen to good people. I had a...
Well… We lost the final round of the moot court competition. It was unpleasant — after the argument concluded, I felt pretty sure we’d won. I think we had a better-developed theory of the case, and we knew our facts better, but our opponents pulled it off. I had the...
The Honorable William Klatt 373 South High Street, 24th Floor Columbus, Ohio 43215 February 13, 2005 Dear William Klatt: I’m a 26-year-old first-year student at Capital University Law School, and I’m writing to you in your capacity as the Tenth District’s administrative judge. I had the pleasure of participating in...
So we had two more rounds of moot court today. I don’t know how but we have advanced to the Final Four, baby!!! Life is good so far. We go back for the semi-finals tomorrow and I don’t even want to speculate on who’ll be in the finals. The opponents are...
When I go to the law library, I like to sit under the shelf that holds the 1987 Yearbook on Socialist Legal Systems. Somehow it is comforting.
