५ सप्टेंबर, २००६

It's the first day of the new school year.

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!

२४ टिप्पण्या:

J म्हणाले...

Are you going to podcast your lectures?

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

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...

tjl म्हणाले...

What's more dreary
Than reading Erie?

Ruth Anne Adams म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Troy म्हणाले...

Note to Dred Scott.
You don't get squat!

Korematsu.
To "camp" with you!

Pacifica,
muthaf&@#ah!

Sasha Amorosa म्हणाले...

I Spy

A Private Eye

Troy म्हणाले...

Buck versus Bell
Eugenics hell.

James M म्हणाले...

With real long wing
Reached Burger King

This concerns Shoe
You work here too?

Mark Daniels म्हणाले...

And he'll be mad as sin
Over Madison

Okay, I'll stay away from poetry for now.

American Liberal Elite म्हणाले...

MacPherson's car
Won't drive too far

American Liberal Elite म्हणाले...

Mrs. Kelo
Has to Relo

SippicanCottage म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
American Liberal Elite म्हणाले...

West Coast Hotels.
Lochner yells.

Tex the Pontificator म्हणाले...

Though Mapp's papers were blue,
Ohio still rued.

Ruth Anne Adams म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
American Liberal Elite म्हणाले...

Pennoyer, nay,
Say "Penn Wah Yay"

Troy म्हणाले...

Incorporate?
Palko says wait.

Hayek म्हणाले...

Baker v Carr
in November

Hayek म्हणाले...

Baker v Carr
in November

James म्हणाले...

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.

Mellow-Drama म्हणाले...

Since Lake Tahoe
can't build no mo'.

Milbarge म्हणाले...

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!

Mellow-Drama म्हणाले...

McConnell is law
Incumbents guffaw.
(I know that's too many syllables.)

Steve Donohue म्हणाले...

No imbeciles,
post Buck v. Bell