prussian advisor posted:

Is anyone else taking a bar exam that has state multiple-choice questions? Or is it just Florida?

P.S., they're loving atrocious.

prussian advisor posted:

Is anyone else taking a bar exam that has state multiple-choice questions? Or is it just Florida?

prussian advisor posted:

Is anyone else taking a bar exam that has state multiple-choice questions? Or is it just Florida?

P.S., they're loving atrocious.

CaptainScraps posted:

I'm renaming the MBE to "Your 1L classes? Useless."

CaptainScraps posted:

I'm renaming the MBE to "Your 1L classes? Useless."

prussian advisor posted:

Is anyone else taking a bar exam that has state multiple-choice questions? Or is it just Florida?

P.S., they're loving atrocious.

CaptainScraps posted:

I'm renaming the MBE to "Your 1L classes? Useless."

joat mon posted:

Alaemon posted:

Here's one some attorneys and I got to discussing the other day.

Death is not an option:

Retake the bar exam
or
Retake the LSAT

BigHead posted:

I'm renaming MBE to "If I studied this 40 page pamphlet, I'd've passed 1L with straight A+s"

Seriously, one Convisor's mini review is key for 1Ls.

Vander posted:

Ugh... I totally understand why they say fatigue is a killer on the second day. I haven't even started yet and I feel like checking out.

Grimmelmann posted:

A New Casebook for a Fast-Moving Subject

I love Internet law, and since the day I started teaching it, I’ve tried to share my enthusiasm with my students. This casebook is the culmination of four years of work. I designed it from the ground up to help law students thrive in the face of the constant ferment of the Internet itself. Internet Law: Cases and Problems combines clear organization, classic cases, and a focus on the doctrinal fundamentals with challenging questions and problems that bring students face-to-face with the challenges facing the Internet and Internet lawyers today.

Now, thanks to Semaphore Press and its innovative business model, I’m pleased to be able to offer Internet Law: Cases and Problems for a fraction of the price of a major-label casebook. Semaphore casebooks are sold as PDF downloads. There’s no DRM, so you can read the book and annotate it on your computer in your regular PDF reader, copy it to your portable device to read on the go, and print out as much or as little of the book as you want. If your computer crashes and you need to download the book again, you’re always welcome to.

The all-digital format means we cut out the middleman and pass the savings on to you. Unlike casebooks from the major publishers, which can cost $150 or more, the suggested price for this casebook is just $30. Think of it as my contribution to keeping the price of legal education down.

Sound good? Read on for the full spiel, or download the sample chapters and see for yourself.

Features

99 33 Problems

When I titled this book “Internet Law: Cases and Problems,” I meant it. Most sections of the book have one or more problems applying the material from the cases to real-life situations. Are you ready to outwit a child pornographer, lobby Congress, unmask anonymous harassers, draft a website’s terms of service, catch a hacker, and help a company recover from a disastrous bug? By the time you finish this casebook, you will be.

Bleeding-Edge Coverage

Internet law doesn’t sit still for a moment. Neither does this casebook. In it, you’ll find ripped-from-the-headlines coverage of ongoing controversies, including WikiLeaks, network neutrality, Righthaven, domain-name seizures, and the use of Facebook evidence in court. If it’s not in Internet Law: Cases and Problems, it hasn’t happened yet.

If you’re looking for the classics of the Internet Law canon, don’t worry. ACLU v. Reno, ProCD v. Zeidenberg, Zeran v. AOL, and many of your other favorites are invited to the party, too. But I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised when you see who’s sitting next to whom and what they have to say to each other.

Absurdly Logical Organization

Each section in the casebook examines a small set of closely related issues: for example, how courts have applied the Fourth Amendment to computers, or the successes and different legal theories used to assert trademark rights over domain names. Each chapter pulls together a set of related sections to examine a single area of law (e.g. privacy or copyright) in appropriate depth. Each section and chapter follows a natural progression from foundations to applications. Four running themes — code is law, governmental control, private power, and generativity — tie the book together, emphasizing what these topics have in common.

No Hidden Balls

Learning to be a good lawyer is hard. It doesn’t need to be unnecessarily hard. In assembling this casebook, wherever possible I picked cases that confront commonly recurring issues, whose reasoning is clear and straighforward, and whose holdings have been followed by other courts. Next, I edited the cases ruthlessly to take out everything but the good bits, and followed them with clear questions to direct attention to the most important issues they raise. Then I wrote introductory primers on topics like how the Internet works, the basics of the First Amendment, and the history of telecommunications regulation. The book doesn’t throw students into the deep end, but it does help them get there quickly on their own.

Joie De Vivre

Studying Internet law can and should be fun. Most of the cases feature highly memorable facts. You’ll meet rogue graduate students, copyright scofflaws, spammers, scammers, and entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes. Many of the questions draw on your personal experiences with the Internet (and see if you can spot all of the cultural references in the names in the problems). Throughout the book, I’ve done my best to make the tone engaging and accessible, even when discussing technical subjects.

Petey posted:

http://james.grimmelmann.net/internetlaw


James GrimmelOwns

commish posted:

If I read this, can I be an internet lawyer?

evilweasel posted:

done with the bar woot

CaptainScraps posted:

Suck my dick.

...

Day 3 tomorrow. The second half of the MBE can eat my rear end.

Roger_Mudd posted:

We've had one seizure (poor girl), three barfs, and a friend who started yelling at me cause I wasn't worried about the results. Now I'm worried that I'm not worried enough.

CaptainScraps posted:

words

Roger_Mudd posted:

If I don't beat 20% of test takers after 2 months of 10 hour days, then I'm an idiot and don't deserve to be a lawyer. (unless of course I fail, then the test cheated like mario on the NES)

Roger_Mudd posted:

We've had one seizure (poor girl), three barfs, and a friend who started yelling at me cause I wasn't worried about the results. Now I'm worried that I'm not worried enough.

Defleshed posted:

When I took the bar, a post-exam drinking session with some former classmates turned into them hissing and inching their chairs away from me when I declared "I know I passed". I have never seen so many presumably intelligent people knock on wood at once.

The bar exam sucks to prepare for and take but trust that if you did any preparation at all, you passed.

commish posted:

I was shocked at my MBE score when I got it back. Shocked. I was semi-confident after finishing the exam, but I had been semi-confident on some practice exams and bombed them. But I easily passed, and I think that's the case with most folks.

prussian advisor posted:

Well, I'm enjoying my two forearms full of splinters courtesy of the Florida Board of Bar Examiners. I hope for my own sake that they have newer tables for the February administration.


_{Linguica hosed around with this message at July 27, 2011 around 17:56}

William Lee posted:

You too, huh? My table had an uneven leg and the girl next to me was erasing every other answer today and the table was shaking like mad.

prussian advisor posted:

Nah man, she was just rubbing her arms against the table to collect all the complimentary wood.

Also did you also find it kind of amazing just how many people there were crammed into one gargantuan room? I sat up near the front and the first time I got up and turned around and saw just how many people (literally thousands I assume) there were in the gigantic convention room, quietly scribbling away, despite the room being almost totally silent, I was a little shocked.

prussian advisor posted:

Nah man, she was just rubbing her arms against the table to collect all the complimentary wood.

Also did you also find it kind of amazing just how many people there were crammed into one gargantuan room? I sat up near the front and the first time I got up and turned around and saw just how many people (literally thousands I assume) there were in the gigantic convention room, quietly scribbling away, despite the room being almost totally silent, I was a little shocked.

Konstantin posted:

The scary part is that many of people will be competing with you for jobs, assuming they haven't already taken the few jobs that were out there.

Konstantin posted:

The scary part is that many of people will be competing with you for jobs, assuming they haven't already taken the few jobs that were out there.

blar posted:

Rick Scott is even cutting funding for PD/SA and court clerk positions.

William Lee posted:

Surprisingly, the hivemind of xoxohth has made me feel better about the MBE. I'm positive I got most of the questions they discussed correct.

Now to go get so drunk I'll forget what I did over the last 2 days!