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BARELY LEGAL: Defending Your Rights As a Tenant

Apr 19, 2013

I was out of state during winter break when I learned from a housemate that our apartment had been burglarized.

BARELY LEGAL: Deal or No Deal? How Should I Know? I Went to Law School.

Mystyc Star Metrik  —  Feb 15, 2013

Law school today is mainly geared toward life in the courtroom, but many law students do not intend to become litigators.

The Price of Our Failure

Nicholas Kaasik  —  Jan 18, 2013

We pay a terrible price for our ahistorical reading of the Constitution’s right to bear arms —11,000 murders, 19,000 suicides and 600 accidental deaths in 2010 alone. In addition, over 200,000 Americans are injured by firearms each year. This has to stop.

What's in a Crime Alert?

Ferdinand Redulla  —  Nov 30, 2012

An examination of the legal implications of "crime alert" emails.

The Moral Predicaments of BigLaw

Tom Schultz  —  Nov 16, 2012

What are the moral implications of working for BigLaw?

A Time to Talk and the Struggle of Speaking

Puja Parikh  —  Nov 2, 2012

Public speaking should be an integral part of a well-rounded curriculum.

Sexual Violence Against Girls in Schools: When Cornell Sent Me to Zambia

Genevieve Nan B...  —  Oct 19, 2012

When I was chosen to be a member of what would later be affectionately called the Z-Team, I was ecstatic. My law school is going to send me to Zambia? I’m in.

Suits and Harvey: Fiction Not Fact

Michael J. Milazzo  —  Oct 5, 2012

Being a lawyer isn't anything like it seems on television. This is what it's actually like. 

Broken Bad: Us, Them and The Law

Nathanael T. Miller  —  Sep 21, 2012

The American criminal justice system is broken. The only thing shocking about this is how pedestrian the failure has become.

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