Suffice it to say, I've been quite a bit of a slacker recently. I haven't even read a blog for a good two weeks. Classes, of course, have been consuming my free time, but all productivity just flew out the window after the flip-flop spree. Fortunately it seems that my spring fever (finally validated by today's good weather) has hit...

I've got spring fever -- bad. To celebrate, I'm going shopping for flip-flops. I can't imagine a sillier activity, but I'm doing it. If I hang around here for one more second, I just might lose it....

Did you know that even you can own Posner for less than five bucks?!...

Waddling Thunder has come out of the closet and moved his blog to the Harvard blog servers, in the process revealing himself as a Harvard Law student. Now that he's out, I must gently break it to him that (I think!) only Harvard and Cooley are really known for calling what is generally elsewhere known as "cite checking" as subciting....

My earlier advice on school selection and rankings has been endorsed by an actual lawyer. This is quite exciting. Greengourd's post is quite excellent and so you should go read it. Ambivalent Imbroglio (not yet a lawyer, but sure to be a good one) was obviously much helped by visiting the law schools on his. He agrees that talking to...

Looky! Looky! I made number 12 on Technorati's Top 50 Interesting Newcomers list! Technorati explains this list is comprised of "interesting blogs that you may not know about, but people are talking about. It is biased towards blogs that have a moderate number of people linking to them, but who have had some interesting original content in the last few...

What you're getting yourself in for: [I]t was pretty frightening to watch one hundred seemingly congenial people suddenly turn into vicious, handraising law students in a matter of seconds. It seems to me that gunnerism is a communicable disease that grows exponentially. From Buffalo Wings & Vodka's account of admitted students day at Texas. Don't worry, dear. It gets even...

Everyone expects that law students are seriously pressed for time. Sometimes, we even beg for more. Somehow, it is disheartening -- yet gives me a certain amount of retributivist pleasure -- to see law professors with the same problem. Perhaps Cronos would be a little kinder if they eased up a bit. Since I doubt that will happen any time...

Okay, everyone laughs at products warnings. How could anyone be so stupid? I left the pizza on the circular cardboard disc. And the oven-mitt inside the oven. Let's just chalk this one up to absent-minded academics' tendencies, shall we?...

What happens when a trial court judge gets overturned on the same issue thirteen times in thirteen years? The Court of Appeals lays the smackdown on him: All this needlessness [the multiple appeals and reversals] sucks money from the taxpayers, respect from the law, and patience from this court. And for what? To order one person [the trial court judge]...

NewsGator is making it capable to get super snuggly with Microsoft. It's a news aggregator that works inside of Outlook, so you can have Total Information Awareness all in the same program. How fun is that? It's making it very easy for me to organize what I want to investigate further -- all I have to do is drag and...

In 1966, Chief Justice Warren sent the following memo to Justice Fortas: Recently an article appeared in a leading Washington newspaper in which the distinguished Mr. Justice Fortas mentioned that “black robes were too awesome for the Members of the Supreme Court of the United States.” After consulting with several designers of considerable note, the enclosed robe is submitted for...

As seen in this month's referrer logs: Yale law school professors are not very nice people and seem quite nosy and judgmental. Well, somebody isn't very happy!...

I've been downing copious amounts of caffeine all day in order to compensate from a serious sleep hangover. Now my eye is twitching and I know I won't be able to fall asleep for another couple of hours. To top it all off, the clock is an hour ahead of what my body says it is. Who thought it would...

Waddling Thunder has a great follow-up on my post about law school rankings and selecting the right school. I am forced to clarify my offhand remark about specialty areas. I said yesterday "If you care only about one or two specialty areas of law, the focus should be on the quality of the curriculum and faculty in those areas, not...

The new U.S. News & World Report rankings, as well as Brian Leiter's, have been released. Chesslaw* has compiled a variety of sources on the continuing controversy surrounding the ranking of law schools. Few bloggers have commented on the rankings, except to announce them and give them the usual perfunctory brush-off (the funniest yet - Prof. Volokh failing to mention...

Please, try not to make your course selection this complicated! Next thing I know you'll be using those little tabs on your manuals that the psychotic students use on their exam outlines. Then we'll move to the highly complex highlighter color-coding scheme, and I'll lose it. I suppose as long as nobody tries to use the bundle of rights metaphor,...

From Dear Prudence, Slate's advice column: Dear Prudence, I am a law student. A professor invited the students that she mentors out for a drink. However, the law professor left without paying for anyone's drinks. I found this to be rude since she invited us and is obviously in the better financial position. What do you think? —Law Student Dear...

I just got an email to take the LexisNexis Challenge: answer eight true/false questions, get two hundred Ultimate Rewards points. (I'm only 10,680 points away from the Coach slim duffle!) Question 6: People who use LexisNexis have great looking hair. Unfortunately, the answer is "False." Damn. I was really hoping that Lexis would pave the way to shiny, beautiful, bouncy...

It's that time of year again. After Waddling Thunder posted his list of course selection priorities, I thought it was imperative that every first year student know the real deal. Timing. Course selection should not only allow for sleeping in as late as possible, but also for the fewest days of class as possible. It is essential that you are...

The Nalgene phenomenon has baffled and disturbed me since college. I simply don’t understand the allure of the Nalgene. It’s a water bottle, people! What makes it better than a recycled Poland Springs bottle? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! Can somebody – anybody – please explain this to me?...

Acting on a hot tip, I was able to inch myself just a teensy-weensy bit closer to world dominance. I now own Outside Counsel. Bill, I'm sorry, but you answer to me now. UPDATE: Joining the evil empire is Sugar, Mr. Poon? Great work, everyone! I'm going to get the HR people on "repackaging" those executive compensation packages!...

At the close of a heated class discussion on the interpretation of a particular statute: [Professor]: Well, I think it means... (a very nonsensical interpretation). [Student]: Why? [Professor]: I wrote it. End of discussion. UPDATE: ASU Law Devil has a similar experience....