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DISCUSSIONS_Lawyering_And_Social_Change	22 Jan 2009 - 00:52	IanSullivan
The Index is getting crowded. I suggest we gather topics into "header" topics. We could distribute Topics among sub headings, like Justin did. But this idea ...

DRussellKraftFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Just Punishment? By DRussellKraft Some Starting Assumptions This essay is written for my classmates at Columbia Law School. In my argument I assume the following ...

DRussellKraftIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I came to Columbia because I want to be trained. What Eben says about immersion is just about right as to what I wanted and expected; I'd like to not only be fluent ...

DRussellKraftSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
DtRK, I've edited in order to cut down on words so that maybe we can add another skill that I think is crucial to becoming a good lawyer: that is the skill of being ...

DaimirisGarciaJournal	12 Apr 2020 - 18:28	DaimirisGarcia
DaimirisGarcia's Journal April 5, 2020 Journal Entry #2: Before law school, the only lawyers I had ever seen in my life were those stereotypically portrayed in movies ...

DanBryan-SecondPaperTALK	14 Jan 2015 - 22:52	IanSullivan
Talk Page: Swindling The Seller? YMMV (Dan Bryan Second Paper) Linking #8220;If you tell me I will find information about "search engines," you shouldn't just send ...

DanBryanIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:52	IanSullivan
I came to law school for a variety of reasons, many of them practical. The flexibility that being a lawyer offers was important to me. Immediately after college ...

DanBryanSecondPaperTALK	03 Feb 2010 - 14:09	AlexAsen
Talk Page: Swindling The Seller? YMMV (Dan Bryan Second Paper) Linking #8220;If you tell me I will find information about "search engines," you shouldn't just send ...

DanKarmelFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Moral Culpability and Punishment By DanKarmel 26 Feb 2010 Moral Assumptions in the Law Our justice system is more than carelessly replete with moral phraseology ...

DanKarmelSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Outline for new version of this paper: Thesis: Borrowers should think about their mortgages as contracts allocating risk, and realize that they expressly pay higher ...

DanLEeFirstEssay	20 May 2021 - 01:29	DanLEe
Chairman By DanLEe May 19 After my 1L finals, I met up with Dom, old friend of mine who had taken on a position at Sullivan Cromwell during the pandemic ...

DanLEeSecondEssay	20 May 2021 - 01:33	DanLEe
Becoming Unhinged By DanLEe May 19, 2021 Introduction Ludwig Wittgenstein #8217;s On Certainty was his last work, and although decidedly less famous ...

DanielAdewunmiFirstEssay	17 May 2023 - 15:01	MichaelPari
Combatting DIPG By DanielAdewunmi 16 Feb 2023 What is DIPG Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, DIPG, is a tumor of the brainstem. It affects the most vital functions ...

DanielAdewunmiSecondEssay	30 May 2023 - 05:05	DanielAdewunmi
Alternate Paths for Recent Graduates By DanielAdewunmi 06 Apr 2023 In my previous draft of this essay, I wrote about conversations with George Kendall. The central ...

DanielButrymowicz-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Ready for grading. Maintaining the Constitution Creed By DanielButrymowicz 12 Feb 2008 Introduction Thurman Arnold argues that constitutions are #8220;fundamental ...

DanielButrymowicz-SecondPaper	23 May 2008 - 22:47	DanielButrymowicz
Ready for grading. My Leisure is More Conspicuous Than Yours! (Facebook as a Vehicle for Pecuniary Emulation) DanielButrymowicz 04 Apr 2008 Introduction The ...

DanielButrymowiczFirstPaper	22 Feb 2015 - 15:32	EbenMoglen
Ready for grading. Maintaining the Constitution Creed By DanielButrymowicz 12 Feb 2008 Introduction Thurman Arnold argues that constitutions are #8220;fundamental ...

DanielButrymowiczIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:53	IanSullivan
I came to law school for many of the usual cliched reasons. I wanted an intellectual career and I wanted to help people. I have never had any intention of working ...

DanielChungFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Career Lessons from Jeremy Lin By DanielChung 3 May 2012 One of the most important lessons Eben has taught me this semester is that I should build a #8220;practice ...

DanielChungIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction Before I attended law school, I taught English to high school and middle school students in the San Francisco Bay Area. As I've told my students ...

DanielChungSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
The Love Song of Bartleby the Scrivener By DanielChung 04 May 2012 Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a love story a story ...

DanielHarris-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:58	IanSullivan
Enhancing free speech with universal broadband Internet access If you're interested in ideas like this, check out NYCInfoLaw. By DanielHarris 14 Feb 2008 "Positive ...

DanielHarris-SecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Domain Names, Trademarks and Taxonomies Disclaimer This problem, independently conceived, was addressed in ftp://ftp.rfc editor.org/in notes/rfc2352.txt 2352. ...

DanielHarrisIntro	12 Jan 2009 - 22:54	IanSullivan
I applied to law school because I #8217;m interested in law and want a degree that would open diverse opportunities to me. I want to do interesting work, preferably ...

DanielImahiyeroboFirstEssay	15 Jun 2018 - 11:25	DanielImahiyerobo
I #8217;ve been the only black man in the room many times before. Yet, there are few times I can remember feeling so uncomfortable in that position as on this day ...

DanielImahiyeroboSecondEssay	15 Jun 2018 - 11:23	DanielImahiyerobo
After a year of law school, what have I learned about the sort of lawyer I want to be Coming into law school I had two ideas about the type of lawyer I #8217;d like ...

DanielKenkelFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Emotional Justice By DanielKenkel 16 Feb 2012 An increasing number of experiments in the fields of social psychology and economics are giving us greater and greater ...

DanielKenkelIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Hello I am Daniel or Dan or whatever you like, it doesn't much matter to me. There is no one reason I came to law school, and many of my reasons are what are generally ...

DanielKenkelSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
The Music Industry, Indie Comics, and the Legal Profession By DanielKenkel 02 Jul 2012 The State of Creative Industries The Music Industry For the better part ...

DanielKetaniFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Symbolism, Politics, and the Future By DanielKetani 16 Feb 2012 Politics and polytheism Thurman Arnold in #8220;The Folklore of Capitalism #8221; asserts that ...

DanielKetaniIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I came to law school because I thought the law was interesting and that it would be a good career. I think that thinking one can change the world is a form of narcissism ...

DanielKetaniSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Anxiety and the Law By DanielKetani 21 May 2012 The desire for formalism Felix Cohen described the American Law Institute and its #8220;Restatement of the Law ...

DanielMargolskeeFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
Economic Theory and the Rational Study of Law Writing about the study of law, Justice Holmes predicted that, while #8220;the blackletter man may be the man of the ...

DanielMargolskeeIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:18	IanSullivan
I worked for an equity research firm for a few years after college, spending my days modeling the earnings of a few Internet companies. I hated it. Daily, I directed ...

DanielMargolskeeSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
Edited version of MichaelDignanFirstPaper Narrative in Legal Institutions People have a deep psychological need for convincing narratives that justify and explain ...

DanielMargolskeeThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Alienation, Violence, and the Law By DanielMargolskee 28 May 2009 A lawyer is a person who does things using words. But what the lawyers we #8217;ve encountered ...

DanielYoonFirstEssay	26 Apr 2018 - 03:26	DanielYoon
Society and Debt By DanielYoon 01 Mar 2018 Premise A society is defined by the success and contributions of its members. Each dollar earned and spent in some ...

DanielYoonSecondEssay	01 Jun 2018 - 17:30	EbenMoglen
My Terms By DanielYoon 26 Apr 2018 Introduction When I committed to a career in law by accepting my offer at Columbia Law School, I knew only that I planned ...

DavidAlpertSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 07:04	DavidAlpert
It is awfully nice to walk in New York   What time is it inside you?   It was over. I walked up Central Park West on the last night of finals. It was 4am, and it ...

DavidCaslerIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
There are always strands of law in American society. Nobody goes through their childhood or adolescence without knowing at least a few lawyers. I looked up to the ...

DavidFrydmanFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Morality and the Law: Duty to Rescue Statutes in American Jurisprudence By DavidFrydman 14 Feb 2012 The Bystander Effect Duty to Rescue Statutes The Effect ...

DavidFrydmanIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
My name is David Frydman, I hail from Dayton, Ohio, and made my way to NYC via Chicago. I am definitely a product of the Midwest in my tastes, morals, and general ...

DavidFrydmanSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Cannibalism and the Institutionalized Ritual By DavidFrydman 14 May 2012 Capital Punishment is the Modern, "Civilized" Form of Ritualized Killing Mankind has ...

DavidGarfinkelFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Juvenile Justice By DavidGarfinkel 25 Feb 2010 During one of my summers in college, I served as a volunteer law clerk for one of the District Attorney #8217;s ...

DavidGarfinkelIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
DavidGarfinkel 13 Jan 2010 My name is David Garfinkel. I was at political science major at UC Berkeley. My desire to go to law school was to develop certain knowledge ...

DavidGarfinkelSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Conspicuous Consumption and the Law Student By DavidGarfinkel 16 Apr 2010 Conspicuous Consumption as a Useful Metaphor In The Theory of the Leisure Class , ...

DavidGoldinFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
I took a different approach to this paper while trying to explore the same overall theme. My attempts at generalization were failing for obvious reasons, so instead ...

DavidGoldinIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
DavidGoldin 14 Jan 2010 I came to law school hoping it would help me find a job that is both intellectually satisfying and that will enable me to care for my family ...

DavidGoldinSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
All so I've stuck with the original idea since it means a lot to me but tried to address some of the issues Paul brought up in his comments by making my aims clearer ...

DavidHirschFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Legal Magic and Jury Instructions Democracy I agree that I owe some engagement with the idea that in a democracy, ordinary people from all walks of life should have ...

DavidHirschIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction David Hirsch I grew up in in Oak Park, Illinois, a Western suburb of Chicago. I went to college in Minnesota and stuck around for two years ...

DavidKellamFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 03:05	DavidKellam
Return to the West By DavidKellam 31 May 2017 Our modern acceptance of online surveillance may irreversibly displace any feeling of entitlement that humankind ...

DavidKellamSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 00:33	DavidKellam
By DavidKellam 07 Jun 2017 An hour ago, I was walking on the beach, thinking about this essay and hoping to use the last few minutes of sunlight to find another ...

DavidManadomSecondEssay	15 Jun 2017 - 20:02	DavidManadom
I have relearned that I am more than capable of using the law to fight on behalf of impoverished/ oppressed persons in the U.S. I use the word #8220;relearn #8221 ...

DavidMehl-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:53	IanSullivan
A Letter To My Fellow 1L'S Like it or not, the vast majority of us will end up working for a BIG LAW firm directly out of school. As much as we have heard about the ...

DavidMehlIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:53	IanSullivan
My goal in life, first and foremost is to be a good dad and husband. Law is a field that interests me greatly, and practicing law will provide me with the means to ...

DawitAkliluFirstEssay	24 May 2021 - 03:50	DawitAklilu
Forming identity through relating experience to craft By DawitAklilu 22 Feb 2021 Section I: Introduction Identity. The formative themes of our life that make ...

DayoOshilajaFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
What do Commercials, the Idiot Box and Law School have in Common? Law a Weak Form of Social Control Insecurity Television: The Idiot Box Television Commercials Law ...

DayoOshilajaIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Nigerian. American. Black. Woman. New Jerseyan. Dukie. Columbia Law School. At the intersection of all these identities is me, Dayo Mariam Oshilaja. My goal is to ...

DeWolfe	10 Jun 2016 - 13:48	SamParnell
SamParnell 10 Jun 2016 This aspect trying to prompt a hyperlink just because the man's name includes two capital letters of twiki annoys me.

DearProfessorMoglenAnOpenLetter	17 Apr 2010 - 14:38	NonaFarahnik
Dear Professor Moglen, I am writing this letter because I think you provide a vital voice to the Columbia Law School community, and because the time you devote to ...

DeathOfAPartner	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
WalkerNewell 23 Apr 2009 The New Yorker published an article about the murder of the Cravath partner that is referenced in "Transactional". You can't access it without ...

DeathOfUSPrisonSystem	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
I thought we quickly moved through an incredibly complex topic yesterday. Maybe we'll talk more about it this afternoon. But challenging the Prison Industrial Complex ...

DeathofGiantFirms	11 Jan 2010 - 16:52	IanSullivan
The marginal return to transactional work of an investment in legal education will certainly diminish. Ivy educated lawyers will be only slightly more valuable, and ...

DeathofGiantFirms2	28 Jan 2008 - 16:15	EdwardNewton
I started this new topic to reply to EdwardNewton, since I sensed we both wanted to move away from the topic of BalancingWork. EdwardNewton never consented to this ...

DecidingInThePresent	22 Jan 2013 - 18:09	IanSullivan
It is very easy, with the benefit of hindsight, to admire a man like John Brown who was willing to put his life in real danger to free slaves, even when this involved ...

DeepThoughts	13 Apr 2014 - 11:39	AjKhandaker

DeficiencyJudgments	17 Apr 2010 - 19:03	NonaFarahnik
Returning to the question from the first few classes: Why don't more people strategically default? http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/03/real estate/foreclosure deficiency ...

DesireeMoshayediFirstEssay	17 May 2021 - 07:18	DesireeMoshayedi
The Weaknesses and Corruption of Macro Cost Benefit Analyses in Redistributive Policy By DesireeMoshayedi 16 May 2021 I) The Structural Issues of Cost Benefit ...

DesireeMoshayediSecondEssay	17 May 2021 - 07:05	DesireeMoshayedi
Would you rather be the rat or the scientist? By DesireeMoshayedi 16 May 2021 I. Rat and Scientist A rat lives in a maze with several other rats. She watches ...

DevinMcDougallFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Climate Change, Creeds, and Expertise I. A problem: Climate change is a priority justice issue There is international scientific consensus that climate change is ...

DevinMcDougallSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
There's room to expand, subtract, etc. as you think appropriate. Basically, I tried to spell out all the assumptions and reasons I thought were floating around in ...

DianaAvilaFirstEssay	06 May 2024 - 17:31	DianaAvila
Future Conflict By DianaAvila 22 Feb 2024 Introduction One of the first questions you #8217;re asked when you #8217;re young is #8220;what do you want to be ...

DianaAvilaSecondEssay	07 May 2024 - 02:05	DianaAvila
By DianaAvila 16 Apr 2024 Welcome to CA Intro Something I have always been open to speaking about is the criminal justice system and how it has affected my community ...

DianaSidakisFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
Holmes and the Universal Holmes #8217;s defense of jurisprudence in the final paragraph of #8220;The Path of the Law #8221; echoes Shelley #8217;s #8220;Defence ...

DianaSidakisIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:18	IanSullivan
DianaSidakis 20 Jan 2009 I want to be a lawyer for two reasons, although I suppose the two are parallel. First, I want to better understand the world; I want to understand ...

DianaSidakisSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
Law School and Contemporary Society By KristineVanHamersveld 26 Feb 2009, edited by Diana Sidakis 20 April 2009 If it is true that law school doesn #8217;t teach ...

DianaSidakisThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Presence The first night I slept in Istanbul I woke up at 4:30AM to the call to prayer. For the last ten months I woke up to the electronic melody of my cell phone ...

DimiaFogam-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:58	IanSullivan
Barack: The Great Black Hope? By DimiaFogam 14 Feb 2008 Intro Over the last several months, many magazine and newspaper editors have seen fit to dub Barack Obama ...

DimiaFogam-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:54	IanSullivan
Economic Inequality and Poverty. Two Sides of the Same Coin? America as a country is wealthier than it has ever been, and as a population we continue to become more ...

DimiaFogamIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:54	IanSullivan
DimiaFogam 17 Jan 2008 I am less interested in interpreting the law, than I am in eventually shaping and changing the law. From my perspective, the law is the single ...

DiminishedIndividualCulpability	17 Apr 2010 - 19:03	NonaFarahnik
I just noticed this case that I thought presented an interesting take on individual culpability. If I understand the case properly, Butler sold people high risk subprime ...

DiscountedLaborOfBIPOCStudentsAndFaculty	08 Mar 2022 - 21:10	AimeePacheco
I just wanted to start off by saying that I appreciated the comments that were made at the end of class regarding the privilege that comes with making comments like ...

DiscussionContinued	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
I became uncomfortable at the same moment as Julia but for a different reason. Rather than thinking Eben's proposition was unfairly tough on politicians I felt it ...

DiscussionsInTheFuture	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
Over the past semester we've all used this wiki to discuss class readings, the legal field, and law school in general. I've enjoyed reading what everyone on here ...

DoNotesMatter	13 Jan 2012 - 22:04	IanSullivan
We're encouraged to write notes, but do they really do anything worthwhile? Granted, they will have an effect on the note writer herself, if at all taken seriously ...

DoWeBelieve	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
WalkerNewell 26 Feb 2009 We are all coming to class twice a week, listening to Eben's version of what is going on in the world around us, nodding our heads, challenging ...

DoYouDoAnythingDifferently	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
Inspired by the love discussion and trying to come up with an idea for a second paper, I started thinking about what effect this class has on people. Unlike classes ...

DoingGoodWork	22 Jan 2009 - 00:55	IanSullivan
I have a pretty good idea of the kind of public interest work I want to do, and certainly I'm not looking to get rich. But as my first wave of summer job rejections ...

DoingWrongByNotDoing	27 Apr 2010 - 20:47	NovikaIshar
I keep thinking back to something Eben brought up in class last week (Tuesday) namely, the idea that if you see a problem, or something that you don #8217;t think ...

DrinkingFromAFirehose	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
Concerning today's discussion on reading/listening to internalize the material rather than forget it: is it possible that under some circumstances, there's simply ...

DudleyAndMorality	07 Jan 2010 - 22:20	IanSullivan
Dudley and Morality When reading the excerpt for today's class, and when I finished reading Regina v. Dudley and Stephens in Criminal Law for that matter, I kept thinking ...

DudleyAndStephens	17 Apr 2010 - 14:53	NonaFarahnik
I thought I would get some discussion of Dudley and Stephens going, because I feel a little conflicted about certain issues that the case and Simpson piece bring up ...

DudleyAndTheWhales	13 Apr 2015 - 20:33	MattBurke
Dudley and the Whales When a different storm rose over a different sea, the frightened sailors cast lots to determine whose god had called it. The lots fell on a groggy ...

DutyandResponsibility	22 Jan 2009 - 01:02	IanSullivan
I'm actually really glad no one used the words "duty" or "responsibility" in their introductory statements. I don't believe in the concept of altruism. No one does ...