CALI Lessons and Reviewing for Final Exams

If, now, at the end of the semester, you are scrambling for some additional materials to review and you’re thinking about using CALI Lessons, realize that thousands of students around the country may be having the same idea.

ABA Journal Blawg 100

It is now time for the ABA to seek votes for the ABA Journal Blawg 100. If you are reading this blog you are obviously not opposed to reading blogs and there are lots of interesting legal based ones out there.

What I like about this process that the ABA Journal goes through is you not only get to see the results but lots of contenders so there might be something that interest you that could get trimmed BUT you still can find out about those possibilities in this process (see the blog directory for the master list of possibles).

Finals / Holiday Hours

A quick note to reflect what our hours are this Finals and Holiday season

Sunday, December 4 - Sunday, December 18
7:30 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.

Monday, December 19
7:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Tuesday, December 20 & Wednesday, December 21
8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 22 - Sunday, January 1
CLOSED

Monday, January 2 - Thursday, January 5
8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Friday, January 6
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, January 7
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Sunday, January 8
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. -- Resume normal hours

New SSRN Research Paper Series for Loyola Law Faculty

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is proud to announce their own Research Paper Series in Legal Studies, hosted by the Social Science Research Network. SSRN is the top digital repository of scholarly papers in the world, with over 300,000 full-text papers in both law and over a dozen other academic fields, such as economics, philosophy and cognitive science. Almost fifty million copies of these papers have been downloaded in SSRN's history, with almost 800,000 downloaded in the last month alone.

Law Professors in Halloween Costumes!

An annual tradition here at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is that our local chapter of Phi Alpha Delta raises money each fall by having students bid on their “favorite” professors to wear costumes in class for Halloween. This year’s money - almost $500 - is going to various children’s medical charities.

Halloween and the Law of Masks

Several states have statutes that prohibit the wearing of masks for nefarious purposes, like California:

or Michigan:

(93 days?)

RIP Steve Jobs and Good Advice for Law Students

Download the iPhone candle app, step outside, and hold it up to the sky tonight in memory of Steve Jobs . Then listen to his commencement speech at Stanford in 2005. It was for their undergrads, but its good advice for law students and, well, anyone:

"Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

- Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement

If that excerpt is inspiring, you can read the full transcript of his commencement speech, or watch it here: