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New Book about How to Succeed in the First-Year of Law School. Know someone who is taking the law school plunge? Put them on the path to success with a copy of 1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School (West 2009). Hot off the presses, 1L of a Ride is already being assigned as recommended or required reading at law schools throughout the country. It's the only book that provides a step-by-step blueprint for achieving both academic and emotional success in law school's first year. Includes real samples of Socratic dialogue, exam questions and answers, student case briefs and class notes. Written in a lively voice, using humor and dozens of true-life anecdotes. Combines a professor voice with a student voice, with dozens of comments from real 1Ls. Speaking of the book, I've been blogging about it for the Center for Engaged Law-Learning (CELL) blog. Part I addresses psychological distress in law students. Part II explores the perilous second semester. Part III offers some surprising empirical answers to law school questions you may have wondered about. Strange Judicial Opinions. A bizarre products liability case in which a man claimed genital injury from his Hanes underwear has been making the email rounds, only to land, of course, here at lawhaha.com. Strange Judicial Opinions. Weird Legal News. I can say with confidence that you simply are not going to believe U.S. Patent No. 7,122,000, a sexual stimulation device inauspiciously titled "Method of using a water pipe." Read about it in Weird Legal News. The Law School Trip (The Insider's Guide to Law School) The classic parody of legal education. A perfect gift for current or prospective law students. Amazon customer and editorial reviews. Amicus Humoriae: An Anthology of Legal Humor (Carolina Academic Press 2003). A collection of the 25 funniest law review articles ever written. Bet your lawyer friends dinner that you can make them laugh with a law review article. "Funny law review articles?" they'll say. "Yeah, right. It's a bet." Go ahead and make the reservations. Amazon.com editorial reviews.
and blow food out your nose funny!" The Bimonthly Review of Law Books
and ululating laughter." The Law Teacher Get it here! Not available in bookstores. Harmless Error Classic 3-Pak. What do insurance companies, the Beatles, and tax season have in common? They're all featured in this month's Harmless Error Classic 3-Pak. Harmless Error Classic 3-Pak. Strange Judicial Opinions. Justice Michael Musmanno was one of the greatest opinion writers in U.S. judicial history, but he went over the edge in his evaluation of Henry Miller's classic novel, The Tropic of Cancer, calling it "the stagnant bilge of the slimiest mudscow, the putrescent corruption of the most noisome dump pile, the dreggiest filth in the deepest morass of putrefaction." And those were the things he liked about it! Meanwhile, a lawyer flunks History 101 in a colorful closing argument involving Jesus Christ, Julius Caesar, Mennonites, and others that was slightly off in its historical timeline - by about 1600 years. And how many detergent brands can be worked into a judicial opinion? The former chief judge of the Fifth Circuit shows us. Strange Judicial Opinions. Weird Legal News. Are legal humor legends real or fake? We're trying to find out. Weird Legal News. Funniest Law School Moments. The inventory of Funniest Law School Moments continues to grow. Funniest Law School Moments. Here are the 69 law schools for which funny stories have been submitted (and number of entries per school): University at Albany (3) Appalachian School of Law University of Arkansas (2) University of Arkansas-Little Rock (6) American University Boston University Brooklyn Law School Campbell University Catholic University (2) University of Cincinnati Cleveland-Marshall University Columbia University Cumberland University Dalhousie (Nova Scotia) (2) Duke University University of Florida (3) Florida A & M University Florida Coastal University Florida International University (3) Georgetown University Georgia State University University of Georgia (2) Harvard University (3) Hastings University University of Hawaii University of Houston Indiana University (Bloomington) University of Kansas (2) University of Kentucky Lewis & Clark University University of Lisbon (Portugal) Loyola University (Chicago) Loyola University (Los Angeles) Lousiana State University Marquette University University of Maryland (2) University of Massachusetts (2) University of Memphis McGeorge University University of Michigan (3) Michigan State University UNLV (2) Northeastern University University of North Carolina University of Oklahoma (5) Oklahoma City University Pacific Coast University University of Pittsburgh (2) Ohio State University Regent University Southern Illinois St. John’s University Stanford University (2) University of San Diego University of South Texas Southern Illinois University Southern Methodist University Temple University University of Tennessee (2) Texas Wesleyan University Thomas M. Cooley University University of Utah Valparaiso University University of Virginia Washington University Washburn University (2) Willamette University College of William & Mary University of Wisconsin |
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