How Not To Succeed At Law School and Other Stories
This week we discuss how to not succeed at law school; the first fundamental rights case in India; a student's response to our CV of Failures series; and, the role of curiosity in learning the law.
How Not To Succeed at Law School
Would you like to help the less fortunate?
Would you like to see liberty and justice for all?
Do you want to vindicate the rights of the oppressed?
If so, you should join the Peace Corps. The last thing you should do is attend law school…
Read this funny take on law school life published in the Yale Law Journal.
A Student’s Response to our CV of Failures Post
A few days ago, we had published a post on ‘CV of Failures’, with the idea that people should be more forthcoming about their failures as they are with their successes. We received a response from a student, who wanted to share their experience.
Dear Sir/ Ma’am,
Happy afternoon!
I read the blog titled “A CV of Failures” on Lawctopus and I wish to talk about the same. My law life has just begun and the epic of failures is just in its initial stage…
Read the entire story here.
The First Fundamental Rights Case of India
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, when the world was asleep, and India was awaking to life and freedom, one of its freedom fighters was in prison. This prisoner, otherwise banished to solitary confinement, hoisted the flag within the jail premises, and gave a speech to his fellow prisoners. He was adequately rewarded. A case of sedition was brought against him for inciting hatred against the British. As K.G. Kannabiran puts it in his book ‘Wages of Impunity’, the prisoner argued that “[…] There is some incongruity in bringing me to trial at this time when on the face of it we have just achieved freedom.”
The public prosecutor and magistrate thought that “the advent of Independence was just an event which did not disturb continuity; it did not announce a change in the existing social order.” Thus, his incarceration continued.
Read this case, which is often talked about, but very few realize its importance and background.
Role of Curiosity in Learning The Law- Letters to a Law Student
One has often asked, “is law the right subject for me?”
The book, ‘Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University‘, answers the question. It is a book that has been voted as one of the top books for a law student to read.
The author answers the question of when law is the right subject for a person in his distinct style, through a letter written to a student of law.
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
-JUSTICE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. (1841–1935)
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