Our faculty had a lunch discussion of non-traditional legal scholarship and publishing today. As someone who sees growing convergence between scholarship in law and scholarship in other disciplines and who wonders how long the pre-Internet model of legal publishing is likely to persist, I started thinking about the classifying function of traditional legal scholarship. The … Read more
Legions of aspiring lawyers recently sat for licensing exams administered by their respective state bars. Was it worth the effort? Here’s my take. My very first client after law school posed an interesting question. She was a creditor who was unsure as to whether she was a secured creditor. She wanted me to find out where she … Read more
The New Jersey Supreme Court might have thought it was dropping a bombshell when it ruled that gay and lesbian committed couples deserved the same legal benefits as heterosexual married couples under the state’s constitution. But the justices achieved something else: they fired off a dud. The reality is that both sides in the battle on … Read more