#law school month

[fairytail-incorrectquotes]

Levy: Pspspsps

Gajeel, walking over to her: Are you trying to call a cat?

Levy, frantically taking notes: Holy shit it worked

[datazoid]

[notbecauseofvictories]

it's a good thing that I've developed a pretty cast-iron sense of self-worth, because otherwise....man, my boss could do a number on me without even really trying.

[riesenfeldcenter]

In honor of Black History Month, we'd like to share our copy of Let Me Live (1937), by Angelo Herndon.

Angelo Herndon (1913-1997) was a coal miner and labor organizer who worked across racial lines. After an attempt to organize black and white industrial workers in Atlanta in 1932, Herndon was arrested and convicted of insurrection. The prosecution case pointed to his possession of communist literature (all of which could be found at a public library), which were found in his hotel room.

Herndon was eventually sentenced to 18 to 20 years of hard labor, but his conviction was overturned by the state appeals court and he was released on bail. On April 26th, 1937, a narrow majority of the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, ruling Georgia's insurrection statute as unconstitutional.

Let Me Live, Herndon's autobiography written during his time in prison, tells the story of his arrest and times in court but also describes his early life up until that point.

This first edition copy features an inscription from Herndon to Thomas Mooney, a noted political activist and labor leader who was controversially imprisoned. When Herndon was out on bail awaiting appeals, he visited Mooney in prison and conducted an interview, which was published in Labor Defender in January, 1935.

To view more about this book and other materials to celebrate Black History Month, visit our digital exhibit, Law and the Struggle for Racial Justice.

[meteortrails]

key to law’s characterization that he’s the kind of older brother who would stand menacingly in the doorway and say offputting shit when you have your friends over purely just to fuck with you. he’s an absolute unrepentant troll - he LOVES being weird and annoying and confusing. law is the kind of older brother who you cannot fucking stand to fight with bc when things get heated, he just gets outwardly calmer and meaner. he’s near impossible to actually intentionally embarrass or fluster bc he genuinely doesn’t give a shit about most things and if you care enough to try, he’s already pissed you off and therefore won (remember: unrepentant shithead troll). this all of course comes with the caveat that nothing annoys him the way losing the idgaf contest or someone accidentally fucking with his shit does, both of which happen Constantly around the strawhats lmao

[narwhalsarefalling]

i got a seizure from watching Avatar 2 and now I can’t drive for six months

[useless-catalanfacts]

Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.

[hotvampireadjacent]

I have never shown any interest to this school Lmao

[klanced]

this is like 6 months late but i just saw you mention that you wanted to become a lawyer and the idea of me getting arrested for attempted murder only to find out my attorney is the honourable Katie Klanced Herself is so surreal. get that education queen i can't wait to live in a world where everytime i see a lawyer named katie i have to genuinely consider the fact that they might run the only voltron blog that every mattered.

the chances of katie klanced being your lawyer are low... but never zero.

[thedrotter]

(cw for a gun, mild blood and suicide in the last drawing.)

Day 1-5 of drawing Re:Kinder daily for a whole month! I'll be doing that all month. ☺️

I did not draw Re:Kinder enough (said both sarcastically and genuinely, because while I know the statement is ridiculous I also do believe it www), so I chose to challenge myself. I will post these every 5 days to not clog the tag too much.

[mimiruku]

wip. Posting my wips of Momina because I wanted the world to know that these existed.

[bizarrelittlemew]

i still can't get over that HR fucked up so badly that i just suddenly owed $10,000. despite me calling attention to the error in december. which they proceeded to do nothing about for 6 months

[riesenfeldcenter]

Happy Women's History Month! To kick off March, here is a photo from our archives of the first three women to graduate from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1893. Flora, pictured on the right, was the first woman to begin classes at the law school in 1890.

Left to right: Marie A. McDermott, Nora L. Morton, Flora E. Matteson

[fillejondrette]

we talked about trans student athletes in class today and i was like yeah i think it's disingenuous to refer to these laws as trans athlete bans bc they really just require students to be on a team that matches their sex, not their gender identity, and i'm not sure what gender identity would have to do with sports anyways. other people's responses can be summarized as: 1) riley gaines is a loser for testifying about losing a sports competition 2) none of the people claiming to care about women's sports actually do, it's just transphobia 3) there's no evidence of harm from allowing trans athletes to participate on teams of their choosing, but there is evidence of harm to trans kids through not allowing them to do that 4) implying that sex doesn't really exist/is socially constructed/can be changed

personally i did not find any of these convincing. i was actually disappointed by the quality of the arguments. and it's interesting, bc i don't remember trans athletes even being a big topic going back more than a few years ago, yet there was already such a strong and ill-informed consensus in the classroom. i was 100% in line w/ trans activists' talking points until a few years ago, and i don't think this was really a thing pre-2020s. i remember realizing in like 2021 that my ideological peers thought trans women should be on women's sports teams and being really surprised.

anyway. forgive them lord for they know not what they're talking about.

[seo-changbinnies]

Marie .. you’re studying for the bar and still finding time to gif??

[lawstrugglesbt]

Many study bloggers and alpha mentality students wake up at ungodly hours to study, workout or meditate and get ready for 😤🤘the grind🤘😤

I also wake up at an ungodly hour. 5 am to be precise and I wish I could tell you that I am in any way productive in the morning but the only reason im awake at that time is so I can scroll on my phone in my warm blankets while drinking coffee for an hour to slowly wake up and have some time for myself🦧

I love my internship I’ve already learned so much there and I was able to experience so many interesting things but by the time im home from work I barely make it until 9pm before I go to sleep absolutely exhausted. The second I get home im cooking food, I clean the house a bit and try to do something relaxing but mostly I just try to stay awake for a bit so I can fall asleep at a reasonable hour💀 waking up at 5am instead of 6am gives me one hour just for myself and my needs and it’s my favourite part of the day