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Wednesday, September 2, 2009 (Vol. 24, No. 2)
Meier
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

On July 30, 2009, the American Bar Association's Commission on Domestic Violence made Professor Joan Meier the inaugural recipient of its Sharon Corbitt Award for "exemplary legal service to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking."

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Summer has ended and classes have resumed, which can only mean one thing for law students: time to find a job for next summer.

Schooner
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Most GW Law people who bike to school do it to save money or get in a bit of exercise before classes. Professor Steve Schooner bikes to school to cure cancer.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

On Monday, August 17, GW Law traded in its old Portal for a newer model.  It came as a shock to many when, instead of finding the familiar logon screen of the old portal, they were met with a ne

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

After my first week of legal study, it is with reluctant disappointment that I admit I am not yet prepared to be a lawyer.  But that's not to say the first week of law school hasn't had a number

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

For most of last week, hundreds of full-time, part-time, and LLM students poured into the law school looking for lockers, nametags and even fajitas.  Especially the fajitas.

Features

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

It is a given that a legal education comes with an extravagant price. As GW students well know, attending law school at a premier institution carries tuition costs in excess of $150,000.

Socrates Shmocrates
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

As the upperclassmen's first week of classes drags along, and we stroll into the law school completely unphased by the environment that surrounds us, I can't help but think of the 1Ls, who are w

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

All right.  I have a confession to make.  I am a word snob.  Stretching from my reign as elementary school spelling bee champion, through honors English classes in high school, to eventually maj

Bar Brief: Set and Lisa
Lucky Bar
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

We're back suckas!

It's For the Birds
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Greetings, gentle reader, and welcome to the brand new year of my column, a column dedicated to shining a bright, critical light on areas deserving of scrutinizing attention, but often overlooke

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Fiction is generally far more interesting than fact.  But in law school hallways, fact and fiction alike are both fodder for the law school gossip mill.  Reminiscent of high school, the gossip s

Ask Yunji
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Dear Yunji,

School has barely started, and alread

LSF 9/2
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Aries (March 21-April 19)
Have you heard? About the bird? The bird is the WORD!

Opinions

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I am from Washington, DC.  But what does that mean? It is something we can all disagree on.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

We're all undoubtedly familiar with the government's now-expired "Cash for Clunkers" program, technically called "CARS" (probably named by the creative geniuses who brought you the "USA PATRIOT

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Any good law student knows that the Constitution protects our right to bear arms. But does it protect our right to bare breasts?

Palestinians Need Stronger Leadership to Achieve Lasting Peace
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

The week of August 7th, Fatah, the de facto ruling party in the West Bank and internationally recognized leader of the Palestinian people, met in Bethlehem for its first party congress in 20 yea

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

"United forever in friendship and labor, our mighty republics will ever endure" is the beginning of the now infamous anthem of the erstwhile Soviet Union.

wine
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

There are two great loves in my life.  The first is wine, whi

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