Harvard Law Should Teach Hacking
Change is not something that comes easily to legal education. We still employ the casebook and Socratic methods adopted by Christopher Columbus Langdell in the 1870s. So the prospect of...
Closes a Door, Opens a Bottle
Note: This series is fictional. —- FROM: Lisa Burns SUBJECT: Fall 2012 Grades Now Available (gulp) —- Fresh off a resoundingly successful run of Solving Problems, Fenno was strolling to...
Fenno and the Final Countdown
Note: This series is fictional. The First-Year’s Guide to the Law School has this to say on the subject of Thanksgiving break: They say that time is an illusion; the...
Why I Chose Corporate
When I started law school I was sure I would be a litigator. In part this was because the task of constructing and criticizing arguments was what appealed to me...
Some More Unsolicited Advice for 1Ls
1Ls certainly receive their fair share of unsolicited advice. Not wishing to break from tradition, I humbly offer some more. My advice will concern the timely topic of exams (and...
We Can Handle the Truth (About Grades)
We live submerged in information. Even when we don’t know it, we know how to get it. Anything is a Google search away. Arguments over facts still happen, but at...