I guess it's officially starting -- that time in every law student's life when he or she melts down psychologically as the bar impends. In such times of trouble, Boalt students have for generations turned to the elders of the Nuts & Boalts community for soothing assurances and not-a-little-bit of derision.A commenter below trying to hijack my Calabresi rant posted some questions that appear as...

We have a winner, for the most laughably stupid article written by a law professor during the election season! Steven Calabresi, a co-founder of the Federalist Society, ruminates in the Chicago Tribune about Barack Obama's youth, the age requirement to be President (thirty-five), and liberal theories of constitutional interpretation. But then, my use of polysyllabic words in the prior sentence evin...

This summer the U.S. Supreme Court ruled squarely under the Second Amendment for the first time in 127 years. Smith & Wesson is celebrating the occasion with the Heller v. D.C Commissioner Commemorative Revolver:"We at Smith & Wesson are pleased to honor the six original plaintiffs in the case while at the same time offering to consumers a firearm that will help in the preservation and protection o...

I can certainly appreciate that anxiety/anticipation that is building up in rising 2Ls regarding CLR. But I want to offer this word of caution, echoed in years past by my co-blogger Tom Fletcher. It's a great feeling to know that you are on Boalt's flagship journal, but it's not the end of the world if you're not. Frankly, it opens up your calendar to do more, exciting things. I think journal work...

Wandering the N&B archives recently, I tripped over Isaac Zaur's weekly "Sunday Literary-ism" posts.  Click here and scroll down -- they are a pleasure.  For the rest of this summer (and perhaps beyond) I will attempt to follow in his footsteps with my own weekly offering.Mine, however, shall spotlight abuses of the English language, perpetrated in the course of paid practice, by justices, ju...