goodbye Justice David Souter

today i took my last exam of 1L year - civil procedure. our professor for this course was an Alito clerk, that we all fondly called Dave. Dave was a visiting professor, who me and fellow law nerds adored for his genuine efforts to care for his students. I sound sarcastic here, but I'm not...that was seriously a law professor that spent time with students, interested in what we had to say and patient in explaining difficult topics like the Erie Doctrine. We were striken to say goodbye to such a fabulous prof, but when we said goodbye to civil procedure when that 3 hour exam was over -- celebrations abounded! We were free!

But the legal world was not about to let me go into my summer (one month of pure legal-free joy in a foreign country) without another heartbreak, another goodbye to Dave. A series of tweets (see e.g. here) informed me that news around town is reporting that Justice Souter is about to retire. Earlier this semester, I was a tad anxious...

"justice souter...why have you not hired any clerks for OT 09 yet? need more members of the elect to crush on!4:21 PM Apr 9th from web"

ok, time to pack for my vacay -- I'll be within the jurisidiction of the 9th circuit tomorrow!

photo from npr.

Article iii groupie Action

Finals time is the best and worst time to start blogging. You procrastinate by reading loads of random articles that tickle your fancy, but you don't want to waste precious study time to write them up in a blog no one reads as of yet? With one more exam to go, I've succumb to the pressures to share:

* Dahlia Litwick on Supreme Court shennanigans over voting rights act:
"It's too bad you cannot watch oral argument from this morning live on C-SPAN , because when the court opts to act like a Super-Congress—albeit a smarter, better looking Super-Congress with less hair—we really should be allowed to watch."
Say oyez to CSPAN for SCOTUS?

* Nino responds to Fordham Law Prof's valiant quest for cute grandchildren pictures on Above the Law. Oh, silliness!

* My own excursions into internet information digging has revealed that you can find out the birthdays of particular members of the Elect, if they happen to be members of law school faculty -- as many of them turn out to be. Happy searching! I found out that my favourite prof (the Souter Clerk) is a Pieces, oops February 15, actually makes him an Aquarius.

* Stanford Celebrity Prof Larry Lessig (tried to link to his blog but it's down) is on twitter. I must be a little slow on this twitter action 10,939 of my fellow legal-ites are already following him. Aside from his fabulousness in his leadership on the Creative Commons movement and, he is also mentor to another member of the Elect that I have a huge crush on, excuse me, admire fondly for his surpassing intelligence and insight.

Law Nerd-ing it!

twitter + gchat status updates and emails to my fellow law-ly friends cannot contain all my law nerdiness. so i've decided to start a blog -- before i scare off all my friends with my extreme nerdiness.

i'm a huge fan of legal blogs and musings (read: ATL, scotusblog, amDaily) and love following (erm stalking?) particular members of the Elect.

so here we go, first post to come soon!