Law Students

Music Thread #2: Nobody Does It Better

Posted on February 29, 2008
...than ______?Go at it in the comments and nominate your favorite "covers" or "versions" of songs.I will stir the pot first by saying that I think the best version of Superstar is NOT Sonic Youth's, but Luther Vandross'. Oh sure, The Carpenter's is appropriately campy with plaintive female vocals on "don't you remember you told me baby," but Luther just takes it to the next level, with his drawn out smooth stylings, and the beginning of the song is just the most super dramatic, crazy thing ever...

Open Thread

Posted on February 28, 2008
I actually have three long blog posts stored up and unblogged, because they are too long and complicated and would take too forever to type up, and I'm pretty tired these days.So, help a brother out. I have insomnia, a pile of work that is ever-piling, and a midterm on Tuesday...

Epitaph for a Romantic Woman

Posted on February 28, 2008
It is perhaps a cynical remark, but the older I get, the less romantic I am, and the less romantic I am, the easier it is to live in this world and with other people.And yet, the romantic hasn't been beat out of me yet. She is alive, still, even if she has artificial lungs and a pacemaker...

Music Thread: Country vs. Jazz/Songbook -- The Original Emo

Posted on February 28, 2008
Because I am feeling too tired today and too lazy about blogging my interesting intellectual/law related blog posts, let's do pop culture, which always generates comments.Sort of along the lines of the question posed here, and very similar to the question posed in High Fidelity, what music do you listen to in order to exaggerate a certain emotion? Whenever I am in the throes of infatuation, love, or heartbreak, the three most Whiny McEmo emotions I can think of (because depression about my professional prospects doesn't have many musical articulations--no one ever wrote a country-western song called "I Ain't Done With My Dissertation and I Ain't Got No Other Job Prospects"), I bounce back and forth between country and jazz/songbook...

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Critique of the Day: Beyond Gentlemen by Lani Guinier, Ann Bartow, et al.

Posted on February 27, 2008
Citation: Guinier, Lani et al., Becoming Gentlemen: Women?s Experiences at One Ivy League Law School, 143 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1, (1995).Description:This is an interesting article that began as an independent study by Ann Bartow (Law, South Carolina, now running Feminist Law Profs blog) when she was a law student at U Penn...

Right On Rape

Posted on February 27, 2008
Nora Niedzielski-Eicher, a board member of the SAFER blog, has a great op-ed in the Los Angeles Times arguing against the Mac Donald article that claims there is no campus rape crisis called "Wrong On Rape".The SAFER blog has also assembled a list of of responses to the Mac Donald article...

Take Back the Rhetoric on Rape

Posted on February 26, 2008
A few days ago, I spotlighted an awesome blog, SAFER: Students Active For Ending Rape.I am not going to get into my own personal experiences here, but I am sure every woman has had some experience with sexual harassment, and too many have experiences with date rape and other types of sexual assault...

Don't Fence Me In - Of Coase and Cattle

Posted on February 26, 2008
It is hard to read Robert C. Ellickson's 1986 article "Of Coase and Cattle" and not think of this song.It is a pretty awesome article, by the way. Read it with a loved one, especially if the loved one is an economist, and enjoy a good argument about how idealized worlds where you can assume zero transaction costs do not exist, and so why do we even talk about that? And dude, informal norms are more powerful than formal law, and look, people do not behave rationally!In other words, the perfect article for a sociologish (I do not deserve the -t) and economist odd-couple.

In Which I Realize How Much I Need To Know Basic Life Skills

Posted on February 26, 2008
Most people who meet me are surprised to learn that I am the youngest of six, since I am the one that "takes care of things" and "is so organized." Until they drive with me somewhere, and I can't remember where we parked. I became an aunt at the age of 11, and so I have been trained to be responsible in many senses, but when it comes to stuff like remembering where I parked or how to get somewhere, I am hopeless...

My milkshake tastes better than yours, damn right.

Posted on February 25, 2008
(It also brings all the boys to the yard.)(In case you are an international student or professional reading this, my excessive use of "bourgie" and "ghetto" come from a few years spent in Los Angeles--most Americans do not talk like this, and rightly so...

That's the best compliment, ever.

Posted on February 25, 2008
This replaces my college years best compliment ever, which was "yes, you are a romantic, but that's what I like best about you" from another friend, especially since I'm no longer as maudlin.But having my neuroticism described as "terribly cute" is quite awesome...

Advice for New Assistant Professors

Posted on February 25, 2008
This may come from a sociology academic blog (Scatterplot), but I think the tips offered by "Olderwoman" are very instructive for new professors of any discipline. I am excerpting the ledes from the first five tips, but do go to the link above for the entire post--and the very good comments:1) Don?t take anything personally, especially not at first...

Sunday Poet: Jane Kenyon

Posted on February 24, 2008
Briefly It Enters, Briefly SpeaksI am the blossom pressed in a book,found again after two hundred years. . . .I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper....When the young girl who starvessits down to a tableshe will sit beside me. . . .I am food on the prisoner's plate...

Change Happens: Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) Blog

Posted on February 23, 2008
An awesome blog, which one of the board members kindly alerted me to via email. From her email description:Change Happens: we?re Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER), a nonprofit that provides college students with the resources and support to challenge their schools policies, programs, and practices around sexual assault...

No, I Don't Want To Talk About It, So Please Don't Ask

Posted on February 23, 2008
Decision: I am not going to transfer and switch to an interdisciplinary Ph.D program.I am going to stay in my SJD program and write articles and try to get them published before I go on the market with my dissertation in 2009 or 2010, or go for a VAP/fellowship...

Stuff I Love Because I Am A Lover

Posted on February 22, 2008
Again, Paul Gowder is the one to be tagged here, because he is also such a delightful hedonist. He loves as much as he hates, and how awesome is that, and how awesome is he.My new apartmentFreshly laundered sheetsBakingGetting stuff in the mail: letters, presentsSocial justice and equalityWhen the legal system worksGood reviews of articlesGood lectures (heard or given)Reading articles/books that are interesting, useful, novel, and well-writtenGetting flowers Mix CDs (making, receiving)Check-in phone calls for no particular reason to/from friends and TDMusic that takes me back to 1997Good music, however I define thatThe beach during winterReading on my couchVisiting TBF and TL, at least twice a yearSpending time with TDFriends visitingComics and graphic novelsPublic radioIndian foodMexican foodMaking my own Vietnamese/Chinese foodShopping onlineRunningRunning in the rainEmailing TL, TD, and HLP throughout the dayNapsGoing to movies by myselfChocolate PorkBeefBreadTeaRedwood forestsBloggingReading blogs, especially academic blogsReading in a random, haphazard manner all of TL's archivesGetting good adviceBeing listened toFancy organic all natural soap that smells goodJersey dressesPencil skirtsBallet flats and round-toe pumpsDelicate silver jewelryForest green, teal, magenta, mauve, orange, dark gray, pistachio greenRoad tripsMaking/giving presentsGetting presentsPubsBoard gamesCoffee and conversation, even at 6:30 amNon-stop flightsLaw review articles that are really good, however I define thatEmployment law conferences now that I know people8 hours of sleepAnd I love you all, dear readers...

Stuff I Hate Because I Am A Hater

Posted on February 22, 2008
Inspired by Jeremy. His list is of five (or 6/7) things he hates most in the world. I cannot play favorites; my hate is equally distributed and my list is expanded. I tag all of my co-bloggers, but Paul Gowder in particular, because he is so deliciously snarky...

Take Heed

Posted on February 21, 2008
I know that I need to, considering how behind I am, such that this summer looks like I'll be stuck at the library:How to be a good advisee.

Now this is constructive anger.

Posted on February 21, 2008
Perhaps I should myself enable comment moderation and get a few things off of my chest, but then again, Megan From the Archives has already done this so splendidly.In other news, I think I need to go to physical therapy for my RSI on my right wrist. Dude, I have the wimpiest job in the world...

Work and Identity

Posted on February 20, 2008
No one is their job, you say. People are more than the sum of their professions. What a limited view of humanity. Blah blah blah. This is certainly true. But then why do people introduce themselves as their professional roles? "Hi, I'm a doctor." "I'm a lawyer...

50 Book Challenge #2: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

Posted on February 19, 2008
I am about seven or eight books behind in reviews, and this is actually the most recent book I've read. I am better at reading than reviewing. So now I am just going to review books quickly without regard to how interesting or useful the reviews may be...

Critique of the Day: Beth A. Quinn, Harassment In The Workplace

Posted on February 19, 2008
Citation:Quinn, Beth A., ?The Paradox of Complaining: Law, Humor, and Harassment in the Everyday Work World,? 25 Law and Social Inquiry 1151 (2000).Description:This is a qualitative study in which Quinn interviewed 21 women and 18 men from a sampling pool recruited from a university summer school and evening class and an organization called ?Acme Electronics...

There Will Be Blood

Posted on February 19, 2008
Briefly: AWESOME.Not so briefly:I was taken to a much needed movie break this afternoon. I am back to work now, but for a few hours I was lost in this movie. It is a more than a movie: it is another world, with different cosmology, morality, and conception of brutality...

That's a tip there, Kids. Write it down.

Posted on February 19, 2008
Tip #104: Never blog while upset and emotional.It is common sense, but there you are.In other news, I am wondering how one would design a study, likely qualitative (semi-directed interviews, etc.), that could generate some interesting, workable theory on how to measure (in real economic terms) the deleterious effects on wage and advancement for women who end professional relationships due to the sexual harassmsent of mentors and advisors...

You Thought the Superdelegates Thing Was Bad?

Posted on February 19, 2008
Then check this out... Hillary Clinton?s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination.This strategy was confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official on Monday...

Excitement

Posted on February 19, 2008
Joining a trivia team fills me with such excitement, that I want to polish my mary janes and brush my hair and read up on useless knowledge so that I can ROCK that party. Well, most of my education has been the accumulation of mostly useless trivia and cocktail party banter, and so I think I can safely say that I am SO going to rock that party! That the trivia contest is a fundraiser is even better...

Angry Belle Mobilizes Her Rights

Posted on February 19, 2008
Actually, right now I'm not angry. I think I may have successfully diffused the difficult situation I was in, which is good because I was getting homicidal. Right now, I am full of happy, warm love, like a puppy rolling in the sunshine. I made chocolate pudding (which is awesome) and licked the bowl and spatula, I have sent off two parcels to TL, and and am waiting for TD to come home for dinner...

Things I Would Blog On If I Had the Energy

Posted on February 18, 2008
Except for a weak wrist (RSI?) I am actually back to normal for the most part, if really behind in work.Things I have been consumed with and would blog on if they didn't emotionally exhaust me and fill me with anxiety and depression:1. Sexual Harassment in the academy...

Yes, David, I said yes.

Posted on February 18, 2008
I just saw this. David Lat asks whether lawyers should date other lawyers. That question conceals two underlying questions, to wit:1. Is it good for lawyers to date other lawyers?2. Is it good for society as a whole to date other lawyers? OR: Is it right for lawyers to date other lawyers? The answers to questions 1 2 are obviously "no" and "yes," respectively, and for the same reason: would you want to date a lawyer? No...

What the Hell: I Am Mad, and I Can Type. If I Don't Have a Voice Here, Then Where Do I?

Posted on February 18, 2008
Thinking about sexual harassment pisses me off like nothing else. Why? Because most people, especially men, don't get it, and most think it's the way of the world.I've been thinking about sexual harassment law a lot lately. I am stuck on an article because I can't figure out how to redraft the Ellerth/Faragher defense in a workable way...

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