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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:07 AM Author: Frum lavender giraffe space Clerkships, academia, law school, etc. Off and on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15993991) |
Date: September 8th, 2010 10:10 AM Author: bright twinkling uncleanness Suppose the racialists are right and African Americans really are less intelligent that whites. Would it be good to use non-coercive eugenics policies to limit their population growth? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15993995) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:30 AM Author: indecent maroon macaca (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994054) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:12 AM Author: glassy indian lodge Hasn't school started for you now? Shouldn't you be busy earning your salary or something? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994002) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:15 AM Author: Frum lavender giraffe space I've got a stack of law review articles I'm leafing through. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994005) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:15 AM Author: bright twinkling uncleanness I can see you decided to be a PC coward and dodge my question. You might really be a law professor after all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994008) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:18 AM Author: Frum lavender giraffe space I oppose all eugenics policies, so I can't answer the question. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994018) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:22 AM Author: bright twinkling uncleanness Then you could easily say that it would bad. I can't see how your position means you couldn't answer that question.
"oppose all eugenics policies"
Really? That's pretty idiotic. Imagine that there is a terrible genetic disorder within a population of people. All people who have this disorder pass it on to their children. Would you really oppose paying them money in order to be sterilized? And, to be clear, you are fine with a less intelligent racial group outbreeding a more intelligent group, right? You don't think we should stop something like that? |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:23 AM Author: Frum lavender giraffe space I guess I was too influenced at 19 by Kant. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994032) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:25 AM Author: bright twinkling uncleanness your opinions are stupid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994038) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:23 AM Author: Fiercely-loyal mint forum u mad i fuck hot women while you write about womyn and SOX? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994028) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:24 AM Author: Frum lavender giraffe space Obviously. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994034) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 2:16 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy crackhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15995417) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:26 AM Author: self-absorbed splenetic hell what was your school rank and class rank? how many clerkship interviews did you get? how mnay judges did you apply to? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994039) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:34 AM Author: Frum lavender giraffe space Good but not elite school, extremely high class rank. I applied to around 75 judges and secured 5 interviews. 4 of my 5 interviews came about, at least in part, as a result of some connection I had with the judge (a highly personalized cover letter citing local contacts, a judge calling one of my recommenders in advance, having a relationship with a current clerk beforehand, etc.). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994064) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:50 AM Author: razzle-dazzle newt telephone Do you have tenure? What was the meat market like? Do you teach from a hornbook? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994153) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 10:59 AM Author: Frum lavender giraffe space Not tenured.
Meat market was mentally exhausting, but as long as you're not one of the people who freaks out over things like the LSAT, OCI, OSCAR, bar, and so on, you should be okay. If you're the kind of person who worries obsessively over those things, it's going to be rough on you.
No. I use some supplements from time to time to get some ideas for articulating concepts in class, but I stick almost exclusively with the casebook. I don't have time to read from everything. |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 12:35 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal mint forum how off are the tenured profs on prawfsblawg about preparing for interviews? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994580) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 2:17 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy crackhouse thinking about teaching a class at the u? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15995429) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 4:03 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal mint forum i'd love to teach business law at the U, fiu, or mdcc. not undergrads in gym shorts and tank tops staring into my knowing eyes, offering their vaginas since it's the only language they speak, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15996139) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 4:13 PM Author: Frum lavender giraffe space Not to be mean (okay, to be mean), many professors don't have the best social skills. All of the interview preparation stories, in my view, read like the kinds of things one might expect to find at a college career services fair. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15996205) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 11:01 AM Author: Deep Pocket Flask Native Did you work in private practice before becoming a prof? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994214) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 11:02 AM Author: Frum lavender giraffe space Yes, typical big law firm. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994219) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 11:26 AM Author: Deep Pocket Flask Native How long did you stay there, and what kind of work did you do? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994321) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 11:14 AM Author: razzle-dazzle newt telephone Are you ever scared that a student is going to ask a question you can't answer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994263) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 11:17 AM Author: Frum lavender giraffe space It happens all the time. The question is what category it falls into. "I don't know, and I should know" is the hardest, and then I'm pretty honest and say I'll get back with them. "I don't know, and it's irrelevant," or "I don't know, and nobody knows" are easy. I haven't come across the "I don't know, and this is so obvious that I look like a fool not answer because that kid in the back probably knows" situation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994283) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 1:55 PM Author: razzle-dazzle newt telephone Good point. The last would be the most worrisome.
Do you ever actually get back to them, or do you just wait to see if they come to your office hour to find out? (Which they probably don't because they were probably just trying to show off in class.) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 4:14 PM Author: Frum lavender giraffe space I try to get back to them. If it's fairly off-topic or unimportant, I'll e-mail; if it's fairly on-topic, I'll raise it myself during the next class. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15996211) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 12:29 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy crackhouse lolllllllll (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994556) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 12:41 PM Author: rambunctious sanctuary how does it feel being a cog in the wheel of a machine that destroys the lives of naive but hopeful young ppl? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15994608) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 1:51 PM Author: Buff private investor Are you a libertarian or a moron? Neither? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15995193) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 3:16 PM Author: Cerebral organic girlfriend who are some of your top poster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1417670&forum_id=2#15995837) |
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Date: September 8th, 2010 4:47 PM Author: Histrionic sapphire church How often do faculty talk about students (both good and bad things)?
what kind of stuff is said in these conversations? |