IANAL^H^H^H AL - I am officially a lawyer. My boss administered my oath of attorney to me this afternoon. In a moment of unusual grace, the California Bar Association has liberal requirements for who may administer the oath, and my boss fits the bill. I sent off my signed and sealed registration card; now I just wait for the Bar to label me with a ( Read more... )

I turned 28 yesterday and

I PASSED THE BAR TODAY!!!

Best birthday gift ever!!!

"The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed. The compacts which are to embrace thirteen distinct States in a common bond of amity and union, must as necessarily be a compromise of as many ( Read more... )

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The UW Law School commencement ceremony for the Class of 2009 is this Sunday at 2:30 PM Pacific. It's at Meany Hall on the UW campus. I am getting my Juris Doctor degree, with a concentration track in Public Service Law - Civil and Human Rights. We are the first graduating class to have this concentration track ( Read more... )

"You might think of the California Constitution as a magisterial, glass-enclosed document that guides our highest principles. It's more like one of the bloody goat carcasses that Afghan tribes use for a game of polo, booted around a field until it's tender enough to eat."

It's getting to where maybe it's better to live in your car than in a house. That is, if you've got something to hide.

In re South African Apartheid Litigation, Slip Copy, 2009 WL 960078 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 8, 2009):

The truth about apartheid - about its causes and effects ... about who was responsible for its maintenance - continue[s] to emerge. This litigation is one element of that emergence.- Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Commissioners of the Truth and Reconciliation ( Read more... )

Iowa is for lovers!

Congratulations to everyone who can soon join Sean and Tim in wedded bliss. Also, congratulations to Iowa on having more progressive courts than Washington, and for having a saner constitutional amendment process than California so this huge step forward is a lot harder to roll back.

Back from spending a week in France. I think I've slept about seven hours since I got up on Friday, and as far as my body is concerned it's late Sunday night. So I'm incoherent and my eyeballs feel like I'm R.P. McMurphy post-lobotomy. Uh. It was a good week. Too much to talk about, but I'll try.

( School stuff in Strasbourg )