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In Pursuit of the Gold Star: Diary of a Law Student

In Pursuit of the Gold Star: Diary of a Law Student
By Kristina Brittenham Towards the end of my 2L year, I mentioned to a friend of mine that I was planning to turn a paper I wrote for a class into an article for publication. The topic encompasses—rather roughly—outlaw emotions, Brown v. Board of Education, and the...

Rage and Critique: One Jewish Girl’s Story

Rage and Critique: One Jewish Girl’s Story
By Libby Adler The most surprising thing he ever said to me was “Don’t take this the wrong way, but you’re really quite beautiful.” We were sitting across the table from one another in a bistro in Boston’s Back Bay, enjoying a brief escape from the demands of...

Radicalism and Responsibility: An Introduction to Unbound

Radicalism and Responsibility: An Introduction to Unbound
By Zinaida Miller and Brishen Rogers It no longer seems revolutionary to say, as Duncan Kennedy did over twenty years ago, that “Law schools are intensely political places.” As Kennedy himself argues in this issue of Unbound, today’s law professors “have...
recent from Legal News How Legal Language Works
How Legal Language Works By Louis E. Wolcher What a legal object is — its identity or essence — is co-determined by how it is: its mode of existence, or the way it manifests itself in time as a lived phenomenon. Thus, any serious effort to think about the human institutions that we call “law” requires a philosophy of how...
recent from Current Events The “Real” in Resistance: Transgression of Law as Ethical Act
The “Real” in Resistance: Transgression of Law as Ethical Act By Kambiz Behi Western philosophical literature on domination and resistance—from Hegel’s portrayal of the slave’s “unhappy unconsciousness” in the Phenomenology of the Spirit, through Nietzsche’s accounts of how bad conscience becomes the essential component of subjectivity, to Gramsci’s...
recent from Recent Articles In Pursuit of the Gold Star: Diary of a Law Student
In Pursuit of the Gold Star: Diary of a Law Student By Kristina Brittenham Towards the end of my 2L year, I mentioned to a friend of mine that I was planning to turn a paper I wrote for a class into an article for publication. The topic encompasses—rather roughly—outlaw emotions, Brown v. Board of Education, and the things about law school that make me...
recent from News How Legal Language Works
How Legal Language Works By Louis E. Wolcher What a legal object is — its identity or essence — is co-determined by how it is: its mode of existence, or the way it manifests itself in time as a lived phenomenon. Thus, any serious effort to think about the human institutions that we call “law” requires a philosophy of how...