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New Star Wars Trailer Reminds Us How Much The Jedi Teach Us About Law School

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Due to the vagaries of illnesses and traveling, it’s been a few weeks since we’ve put up a weekly legal memes roundup. Sorry for that, everybody. We fix that today by catching up on some of the best offerings of the last three weeks or so. As always, these are presented without attribution solely to protect the posters from having their names come up in a future employment search as Above the Law co-conspirators.

The new Star Wars trailer dropped today. Cass Sunstein famously pointed out all the ways that Star Wars informs our world — including the law, but it’s underappreciated as a guide to law school. Someone old who speaks in riddles tries to teach you something that feels like magic and the Jedi are masters of the Socratic method:

Anyway, let’s open with some Star Wars-themed legal takes. I’ve got a feeling the government attorneys in the Bond case may be living out this one.

This is captioned “Debt is where the fun begins” which deserves zero credit because it forced me to remember that abomination of a film:

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You might think we’d have a slew of “Mr. Chief Justice” memes because those came and went while we’ve been away from this beat. We will not:

April Fool’s Day came and went and some Property professor out there decided to have a pop quiz. Welcome to the Hall of Fame:

Welcome to Biglaw…

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Remember Noel Francisco spouting off the other day about the role of the courts? So do the good folks over at Law School Memes for Edgy T14s:

Finals are going to be rough…

With graduation coming up…

And Game of Thrones returns this weekend, so we bring you the wit and wisdom of Tyrion Lannister, Esq. “When you’re a 3L reminiscing about our time here…”

Criminal law is about to get lit:

And his name’s probably on the building too…

Speaking of the Federalist Society, here are a couple of observations:

This one was posted for all the 1Ls who just covered proximate cause:

And finally, the law student’s constant dilemma:

Earlier: What Jar Jar Can Teach Us About Free Speech
Talking About Star Wars With Cass Sunstein

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