#civpro

[katierosefun]

thinking that this scene is kinda funny and also really wonderful bc,

a) butcher’s an ass and i don’t blame hughie for not accepting his stupid apology (even though just the fact that butcher would apologize in the first place is so mind-boggling , , ,), but look at his lil’ face. look at his quirky half smile. this stupid guy really thought hughie would accept that. butcher u fuckign moron,

b) hughie’s “:|” right before going apeshit,

c) butcher being so unfazed by the punch (screencaps cannot capture the sheer hilarity that is hughie’s the one who throws the punch BUT HE’S ALSO THE ONE WHO STILL FALLS),

d) knowing full well that butcher could beat hughie’s ass in 2 seconds flat, and he just kinda. stares in 2 seconds of disbelief and then just tries to keep hughie from punching him again (but doesn’t ever go on the offense mode, just pure defense)

[terriblelizbians]

meanwhile contracts is on friday and that one IS open note (limited to printed out outline) but im also screwed there because turns out i did not pay any attention at all during contracts

[christianmommyvlogger]

i am done…early?

[highpriestessofchildsacrifice]

16 more pages of contracts readings and then i can eat some noodles and watch my civpro professor's 42 minute video that he filmed himself. Bc thats what i need rn <3

I forgot it was like this as;dgk putting that shit on 2x speed lets literally get this over with

[owlchimedes]

todaybor day is labor day! i'm trying to blend the concept of a holiday into the critical mass of work I have to get done while respecting the world's decision to be blustery and gray. that means getting cozy and smashing through a ton of work!

therapy appt

call momma

bake katherine hepburn's brownies

run laundry (1 | 2 | 3)

torts 91-100, 106-119

civpro supp 31-37

civpro 75-84, 91-97, 120-141

cont 94-107, 109-111

cont 61-65, 69-85

cont prob 3.4, 4.3

message KJ, TD, A, N

make fri dinner reservation

call papa

deal with terror bins (1 | 2 | 3)

clear and sort email inbox

clean kitchen

[pusakalye]

ok game plan tom:

1. wake up early to check in on my barrister

2. civpro study

3. go class

4. ethics mt review

5. prop mt review

6. if i cannot concentrate then either do the agency or sales reviewer condense

[dragxnfruiit]

me yesterday: I’m gonna sketch every day!

me today: literally no time to sketch. so idk have my notes from today’s civpro, much less fun than my property doodles but hey at least there’s technically a doodle albeit a 30sec one

4/3/24

[hussain-awan]

Harvard Law Meets Pakistan’s Supreme Court: How Our 1L Education Thrived Halfway Across the World

In the throes of 1L year at Harvard Law School, we often heard our peers lamenting the insularity of American legal education and its presiding academy. 

Forced to pore over the intricacies of some constitutional device invented by John Marshall two centuries ago, our classmates complained bitterly about the narrow focus of our curriculum on domestic law and the absence of contemporary international and comparative perspectives. While there may be some truth to these grievances, our extraordinary journey from WCC to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the foothills of the Himalayas has shown us just how remarkably versatile our 1L education can be when applied in unexpected and unfamiliar settings.

It all began with a simple question we posed to Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, the incoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, during an informal chat in Austin Hall last year. We asked if he had ever seen law students or lawyers, trained in the Western jurisprudential traditions of England or the United States, succeed in what seemed to us the wholly alien world of the South Asian legal system. To our surprise, he answered our question with a proposal: come to Islamabad, he said, and he would have us serve as summer law clerks at the Supreme Court during his next term. 

Uncertain about the practicality of such a venture but freed by the end of our regular summer jobs in July (I’d just finished my 1L internship in Tunisia, while Saeed was wrapping up his 2L summer in New York), we jumped at the chance to spend a few months bridging the gap between our American legal training and our Pakistani heritages. Little did we know that this casual conversation would lead us to an incredible weeks-long adventure that would not only enrich our understanding of Pakistani jurisprudence but also underscore the value of our 1L education.

The challenges we faced were, in some respects, unlike anything we had encountered in our 1L years. From the moment we stepped foot in Pakistan, we were immersed in a world where the legal landscape bore little resemblance to what we had studied at Harvard. On our first day on the job, we watched Supreme Court oral arguments with fascination, as lawyers and justices alike flitted between posh, Londoner-accented Queen’s English and an equally fluent Urdu, with Punjabi idioms sometimes thrown in for verve. 

Later, we were invited to make motorcycle trips to the much older district courts of Rawalpindi, where we saw colonial-era courtrooms –– still marked by a distinct British architectural style –– crowded in by dozens of tightly packed law offices hosting small firms and solo practitioners desperately competing to try and scrounge out a living in the environment of the katcheri (court complex).

However, the skills we had honed during our 1L year turned out to be surprisingly useful in navigating this unfamiliar territory. In a foreign legal system with its own complex set of precedents, we found ourselves stuck in the cavernous Supreme Court basement library for days, poring over hundreds of pages of the leading constitutional case law. Luckily, the endurance we’d built making our way through readings for Legislation and Regulation with Prof. Matthew Stephenson, J.D., PhD 03’, or CivPro assignments for Prof. Stephen Sachs, B.A. 02’, suddenly proved very useful. 

The agonizing hours spent on our LRW bear memos and veterinarian briefs bore fruit as we navigated new databases like the Pakistan Law Site with ease. Perhaps the most intriguing application of our 1L education came, somewhat surprisingly, in the realm of procedure. We found ourselves comparing and contrasting the use of concepts such as original jurisdiction between SCOTUS and the Supreme Court of Pakistan. 

While 1L Civil Procedure had taught us the basic idea of original jurisdiction and its limited application in the jurisprudence America’s highest Court, we now grappled with the much more expansive use of suo moto (court action without a motion) powers, original dockets, and public interest litigation in the workload of its sister institution in Pakistan.

Our experiences in Pakistan have since culminated in a comparative constitutional law paper now in the process of finalization. The paper contrasts the appellate-focused US Supreme Court with the emergence and growth of first-instance public interest litigation at the Supreme Court of Pakistan. We are thrilled to announce that our paper has already been accepted for publication in some of Pakistan’s leading law journals.

Our journey from Harvard Law School to the Supreme Court of Pakistan is a testament to the adaptability and power of our 1L education. It shows us that the skills we developed in the American legal system can be effectively applied to tackle complex legal issues in a variety of contexts. As we continue our legal careers, we are committed to building bridges between institutions in our countries of study and our countries of origin, creating opportunities for legal talent to thrive and make a meaningful impact on the law globally.

As much of a nightmare as 1L can be, our experiences halfway across the world remind us that the skills acquired during our first year can transcend borders and prove their worth in unexpected ways.

Hussain Awan is a 2L at Harvard Law School, a contributor to Harvard Law School’s Global Anticorruption Blog, a Chayes Fellow, and a former clerk to Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah. Awan attended McGill University, graduating as class valedictorian. 

Saeed Ahmad is a 3L at Harvard Law School active in the Harvard Association for Law & Business and the Admissions Fellow program. He graduated from UCLA and worked at LVMH before law school. He is a former clerk to Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah.

[katierosefun]

:( got my second grade of law school ever

[mnlnotes]

23 days to go before midterms!

fix my schedule and study plan

prepare case digests for CivPro

Laban!

🎧Folklore - TS

[mourning-again-in-america]

pretty sure san antonio v hotels.com is straight up wrong assuming i know enough about supersedeas bonds and san antonio is correct about procedure in the fifth circuit being that bills for premiums on surety bonds are given in the district court after the case has "exited" the appellate court's jurisdiction, thus san antonio had no idea how much the online travel companies were paying in premiums on the surety bonds and because san antonio won a huge judgment at the trial stage and got reversed on appeal

which means that the online travel companies (incl. hotels.com)'s bankers got to make a killing at taxpayer expense, if i'm reading this right. unless supersedeas bonds' premiums are negotiated with the then-winning party? civpro is cursed. finance is cursed. civpro + finance is double cursed. this, i'm sure of.

[civpro]

lmfao i changed my url to civpro as a joke but it actually worked???

[christianmommyvlogger]

Not sure how i pulled this off but i got an A in CivPro and an A- in Torts…

[chewandswallaw]

Goodland Company Inc. v. Asia United Bank Case Digest

GOODLAND COMPANY, INC., Petitioner, vs. ASIA UNITED BANK, ABRAHAM CO, ATTY. JOEL T. PELICANO AND THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF MAKATI CITY, Respondents. G.R. No. 195561 March 14, 2012 Facts: Petitioner filed a complaint for annulment of mortgage before the RTC of Biñan, Laguna on the ground that the REM was falsified and in contravention of the parties’ agreement that the blank mortgage form would…

[buymeabrink]

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[theamnesias]

It’s gonna be a busy Labor Day weekend