I should be doing homework
but I’m sitting here instead watching Nevermind the Buzzcocks and seriously considering the Pace Law London program.
Socratic method FTW
(via bonezpresley)
First Day of Family Law
My professor is 100 years old.
Also, I should be excused from this, I successfully did my own divorce LOL
You know a case is old…
when the cause of action happened in ”uninhabited and unpossessed” land in Queens, NY.
(reading Pierson v. Post, N.Y. Sup. Ct 1805 for Property and laughing my ass off, how the hell do you “occupy” a wild animal?)
ETA: This is getting better and better, the judge is quoting someone called “Puffendorf.”
Demetri Martin on Law School “Word of the Day”
HAHAHAHA. We should totally do this in class!
(Bill, if you’re stalking me and reading this…. yes, I’m talking to you)
I fucked up
Stayed up until 6am (not even studying), slept until 11am.
Got up and stumbled to The Peekskill Coffee House for some breakfast (or lunch, whatever) which was the first meal I’ve had since Friday (all I had yesterday was a cup of coffee, many redbulls and a handful of chips.)
Then I was tired all day and couldn’t focus on anything… Still tired. The only time I got my ass off the couch was to go downstairs ‘cause Bill stopped by to give me notes and his copy of the FRCP. Came back up and laid down again…
Now I’m gonna try to catch up. I think I have personal jurisdiction down (even though I keep forgetting the difference between in rem and quasi in rem) and I get subject matter jurisdiction too. I’m stuck on the Erie doctrine… I get the big picture but I have a hard time distinguishing between substantive and procedural (how’s a statute of limitations not procedural? doesn’t make sense.) If I can’t tell the difference I don’t know which test to apply. Worst case scenario I’ll just go with federal trumps state law… statistically speaking, that’s the answer most of the time.
So all I need to worry about is res judicata, claim preclusion and issue preclusion. The professor went over this on the last two classes and I paid no attention ‘cause 1. he had already called on me this semester and 2. I was busy on facebook.
Let’s hope all the knowledge just pours into this airhead of mine :)
