It's the first day of school. This is the 23d time I've begun a new academic year as a lawprof, but it's still exciting. I won't get to see any of the new students in my classes, because I only teach 2 and 3Ls in the fall. It would be nice to teach 1Ls -- who must be in quite a state this morning -- but I just don't teach any of those courses. For me, it will be Religion & the Constitution today and CivPro2 -- Civil Procedure II -- tomorrow. That's
Everson and
Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance today and
Pennoyer tomorrow. Delightful! I'll never get over feeling incredibly fortunate to be a law professor.
ADDED: I'd like to write a poem about law school, containing these two lines:
I'll annoy her
With Pennoyer
But maybe you can help. I need more couplets. Each couplet must rhyme, have one famous case name, and consist of two 4-syllable lines. You know you can write one!
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Are you going to podcast your lectures?
The world needs to know about Pennoyer? That's reserved as a secret initiation rite for lawyers.
But anyway, I don't think the students, who are supposed to be doing a lot of the talking, would be encouraged by making their statements openly available. But maybe no one would come to class...
What's more dreary
Than reading Erie?
Note to Dred Scott.
You don't get squat!
Korematsu.
To "camp" with you!
Pacifica,
muthaf&@#ah!
I Spy
A Private Eye
Buck versus Bell
Eugenics hell.
With real long wing
Reached Burger King
This concerns Shoe
You work here too?
And he'll be mad as sin
Over Madison
Okay, I'll stay away from poetry for now.
MacPherson's car
Won't drive too far
Mrs. Kelo
Has to Relo
West Coast Hotels.
Lochner yells.
Though Mapp's papers were blue,
Ohio still rued.
Pennoyer, nay,
Say "Penn Wah Yay"
Incorporate?
Palko says wait.
Baker v Carr
in November
Baker v Carr
in November
Ann Althouse wrote: "That's reserved as a secret initiation rite for lawyers."
And how! As a non-lawyer myself, I had to Google it a while back to find out what someone on the Volokh Conspiracy was talking about. The first result on Google was this:
[Special note for anxious 1Ls: Reading and briefing this case is a hazing exercise more than anything else. The current law of personal jurisdiction mostly comes from cases you'll study later (like Shoe and Shaffer). Also, most of the cases you'll read won't use such archaic language. So hang in there! Thanks for visiting!]
The explanation goes like this:
Now, Neff “reappeared”…I don’t know where, but it seems to imply that he returned to Oregon and found out his land had been sold seemingly under his feet (in his absence).
So Neff sued Pennoyer to get the land.Neff was all like, “I’ve got this deed from the government, dude!”
And Pennoyer was like “Sheriff’s deed! Read ‘em and weep!”
If you let your students use laptops during lectures, many of them will be reading exactly this explanation.
Since Lake Tahoe
can't build no mo'.
It may be a little more than you want, but last year I wrote a love poem using the most common Civ Pro rules. I think I even managed to refer to "mandatory joinder" without being too salacious. Feel free to pass it along to your students!
McConnell is law
Incumbents guffaw.
(I know that's too many syllables.)
No imbeciles,
post Buck v. Bell
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