Graduation
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Commencement, Job Searches, Law Schools
Emory Law Follow-Up: In Defense of Professor Stadler
Yesterday I wrote about the Emory Law School commencement address delivered by Professor Sara Stadler. In it, she told graduating law student that their own “sense of entitlement” was standing in the way of their happiness. I’ve got nothing against Professor Stadler or Emory Law, but I personally thought this was the wrong note to […] -
Commencement, Job Searches, Law Schools
Possibly The Most Hypocritical Commencement Speech Ever
Honestly, I think it’s time to feel sorry for the Emory Law class of 2011. Things are tough for a lot of graduating law students, but the way the Emory administration and faculty have treated the class of ’11 is simply shocking. If you ranked ABA-accredited law schools based on how the administration reacts to […] - Sponsored
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Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Minority Issues, Racism, UVA Law
Is Johnathan Perkins Going to Graduate From UVA Law?
UPDATE (10/3/2017): We now know much more about what happened to Johnathan Perkins back in 2011 than we did at the time, and it majorly changes how he and the situation should be viewed. See this new story, Was UVA Law Alum Johnathan Perkins Pressured By The FBI Into Recanting His Account Of Racial Profiling? […]
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Commencement, Law Schools, listserv
Should There Be a Market in Law School Commencement Tickets?
Are tickets to law school commencement like organs? Or babies? They’re not as necessary as organs, and they’re not as adorable as babies. But are graduation tickets, like organs and babies, so sacred that we should not allow them to be distributed through the free market? (Some folks, like certain Chicago School law-and-economics types, think […] -
Cheapness, Commencement, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Law Schools, Money
Law Students So Broke They Can't Afford to Look Decent at Graduation?
There’s poor, there’s broke, and then there’s whatever you would call the economic state of current law students. They are up against it, and they know it. It’s particularly tough on 3Ls. We’re in March, so graduating law students without jobs lined up are about to get kicked out of school and on to the […]
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