One-Armed Piano Players Do Not Need to Play For Free in Iowa

This is a second post in which I identify a rumored law and research whether it exists. In an earlier post , I researched rumors that Iowa l...

Sunstein on Academic Legal Writing

Through the TaxProf Blog , I learned of this recent essay by Cass Sunstein, In Praise of Law Reviews (And Jargon-Filled, Academic Writing) ...

A Perfect Storm of Terrible Legal Writing

From the ABA Journal , I learned about the resignation of Professor William Bradford of West Point. Bradford resigned after publishing a not...

California Penal Code 602.12 and Unlawful Entry Onto Property to Interfere With Research

Consider a couple of hypothetical situations. Al is a graduate student at UCLA who lives in Los Angeles, California. It is summertime so Al...

Concerns Over the California State Bar's Practical Training Proposal

Paul Caron has this post at TaxProf Blog quoting extensively from a (paywalled) article at The National Law Journal. From the quoted porti...

Settlement in Examsoft "Barmaggedon" Lawsuit

So reports the National Law Journal : Aspiring lawyers who sat for the July 2014 bar examination are eligible for $90 each from software com...

Chemerinsky: California Should Adopt the Uniform Bar Exam

Erwin Chemerinsky, noted constitutional law professor and the dean of UC Irvine School of Law, recently wrote this op-ed in the Los Angeles...

Would Texas Bill H.B. 868 Make it More Likely that Teachers Will Shoot Students?

Commentators at Daily Kos and ThinkProgress believe it will. From the ThinkProgress article: People who are concerned about the use of exc...

How Not to Write a Petition for Certiorari

From Josh Blackman's Blog , I learned about the remarkably terrible petition for certiorari in  Sigram Schindler Beteiligungsgesellscha...

Amar and Allard on Reevaluating the Bar Exam

At Justia's Verdict, Vikram Amar has this article discussing the decline in performance of the July 2014 bar examinees relative to othe...