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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (78919)	4/26/2000 11:05:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I did very well in law school, but not quite well enough. Except for a "C+" in Civil Procedure, I would have made law review, although I did get on the Maritime Law Review. I still think my Civil Procedure professor deliberately skunked me somehow, because of an incident in class. A very bright student used the term "bogus" and the professor tried to humiliate him, saying he'd give him a quarter if he could find it in Black's Law Dictionary. I said I'd cover the bet, and threw the guy a quarter across the room, and he caught it (must have played baseball). The next class period, I brought Black's, which of course has bogus in it, as a bogus check, but the guy didn't want to make a big deal of it, but like the jerk you know me to be, I wrote the definition on the board so everyone could see it when the professor came in. He gave me such a venomous look. Our grades were supposed to be anonymous, so maybe it was just a coincidence that I made two A's, a B+, and that C+. The other guy did make law review, and got a job with the biggest law firm in New York, and has probably made millions. On the other hand, I've spent a lot of time with my kids. I loved law school, but I also had Ben between second and third year, and was pregnant with Nick during my LL.M., so I was very tired. J.D. cum laude, LL.M. with distinction, and none of my clients ever seem to notice, and no one cares - but me.

To: epicure who wrote (78919)	4/26/2000 11:51:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

But I didn't answer your question, I liked anything with constitutional law implications. Con. law, criminal, con. crim. pro., federalism, environmental, even admiralty require consideration of the constitution. In admiralty, there's always the threshold of whether admiralty law applies, or state law, that's often good for some really fun legal wrangling, most of the really interesting admiralty cases have to do with constitional law. Same with environmental. Litigators always have to consider whether they are in the right forum, under the right law, and the questions are usually good for a fight in these areas. Federalism really was my favorite. I can "see" all the competing claims like force fields, and work them out like puzzles. I guess that's my interest in the Elian case, the way all the competing interests interact. I can "see" the outcome, and I don't have a personal stake so it doesn't bother me. Getting all emotional about the force fields seems to me like getting all emotional about forces of nature - it's pointless.