Another day, another dollar, another update before the break
We here at The Docket know that we are most thankful for all of you. Not just the five people reading this (three of which are editors...and we have eight editors), but the 650 or so of you fellow classmates who have made this semester such a resounding success. Without your support we probably wouldn't have the motivation to keep doing this every week, and so our success is also your success. So, thank you GSU College of Law. And have a wonderful Turkey Day distraction from studying for those exams. Remember to kick back a few at some point. Take a break and see a crappy movie and never forget that law school isn't your life, but simply a means to an end: your life is what you make of it, the rest is just clutter.
This is a low volume week for content (for obvious reasons), but give thanks to these contributors as they put the effort into bringing you some last minute enjoyment before the mind-numbing freakout that are law school exams:
- Jane Stebbins checks in yet again with her fantastic blog, Keepin' It Real, as she creates an apple cider science fair project that is low on head, but high on good times. Intrigued? Read on...
- Diane Kim literally kills me with laughter with her newest installment (#44) of 50 Awesome Things About Law School.
- Laura Ng gives us a taste of the internship experience in her blog, Law Students in the New Economy.
- And Casey Viggiano gives us the skinny on our Moot Court Team's successful weekend.
50 Awesome Things About Law School - #44
A blog by Diane Kim, 2L
44. You are surrounded by people who know how to use the word 'literally' correctly.
Moot Court team advances to semi-finals at regionals
A news article by Casey Viggiano, 2L
This past weekend, GSU advanced to the semi-final round of regionals for the New York City Bar National Moot Court Competition. 3Ls Dimitri Epstein, Joe Hoffman and Jonathan Page competed Friday, November 20 and Saturday, November 21 against law schools from all over the southeast, including UGA, Barry, Florida Coastal and John Marshall in the preliminary rounds and Emory in the semi-finals.
The Law Student in the New Economy
A blog by Laura Ng, 2L
To all the 1Ls: Good luck with your search for a summer internship!
On December 1, 2009, 1Ls can finally join all the other law students in the race to find a summer clerkship or law internship. Although the internship pickings will likely be slim in 2010, it is definitely possible for a Georgia State first-year law student to get a summer internship with a law firm, judicial clerkship, or public sector.
Keeping It Real
A blog by Jane Stebbins, 2L
Cider Must!
11-19-09
11:00 a.m.
How to top the Fred blog? Finals are coming, Thanksgiving is coming, Christmas is coming . . . in the meantime, I need to come up with some weird ass, time-consuming experimental project that will hopefully spark some interest in readers and leave them inspired and full hope and finals-conquering energy.
A Hidden Danger in “Domestic Violence”
An article by Drew Crecente, 2L
This past October, like every October since 1987, was Domestic Violence (DV) Awareness Month in the United States. Organizations throughout the country worked on various initiatives to increase awareness and education about DV in their efforts to mitigate a problem that affects over 2 million men and women per year1 and costs the government, employers, and workers an estimated $5.8 billion per year in healthcare costs and lost productivity.2 Awareness about DV is the first, and arguably most critical, step in prevention. Unfortunately “Domestic Violence” is saddled with a dangerous, self-defeating label. While violence is both fitting and appropriate, domestic is neither, in both its implicit exclusion of some groups as well as the inappropriate connotations of its historical usage.