McBlogmick

This abstract came across my e-mail, and it looks great. I haven't read this one, but I saw the author present on a prior study a few years ago. She also is one of the authors of Just Writing, one of the best style/writing manuals, and one I recommend to all of my writing students. Her legal writing textbooks are great also, but I don't imagine that many people besides me like to geek out with a good legal writing textbook . . .

This site is maintained by CALI, and podcasting is part of its technology and law teaching empire. If you have a moment, it would help CALI and me significantly if you could take this survey. CALI will not release to me the results for my students, and it won't release the results of the survey at all until well after the semester has ended.

I really use this kind of information to structure what I provide for students, so knowing on a grand scale what works, what doesn't, and why helps me and my future students enormously.

Thanks!!

And, without too much delay, here's the podcast governing the power of Congress to control the jurisdiction of the courts. fcts4.mp3

I'll be working on subject matter jurisdiction and federal common law over the weekend, and should be just about caught up at some point next week. Que Milagro!

Here is the podcast on ripeness, mootness, and the political question doctrine. fcts3.mp3.

The next one will be on Congress' power over federal court jurisdiction.

As a law professor, I'm always looking for good resources to help students make sense of what it is they are learning and to figure out how to understand what we are doing. Here are links to abstracts for two great ones that I ran across today.

The first is an article on how legal experts read cases and what law students can do to become experts more quickly. The Paradox of Legal Expertise, by Leah Christiansen.

The second is an article on legal logic by a judge from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and two of his clerks. Ruggero Aldisert, the judge, has written an excellent book on appeals and another on logic for lawyers. Logic for Law Students, by Ruggero Aldisert, Stephen Clowney, and Jeremy Peterson.

The sound is a little weird--a little electronic, or something. prop6.mp3. It hits the high points, though.

Here is the landlord tenant podcast. prop5.mp3. I hope to finish the land transaction one tomorrow, so stay tuned!

I know not everyone agrees with me on the issue of Wal-Mart and workers, but here are a couple of links to some pro-worker sites, one of which is pretty amusing: http://www.walmartworkersrights.org/ and http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/facts/.

On the other side is http://www.walmartfacts.com/wal-mart-wages.aspx