Thursday, January 10, 2008

What I Learned at School...

Here is what I learned this week in my first week of law school (which subsequently shows what classes I am taking for those who care- like my parents).

Wills, Trusts & Estates: how to disinherit a child.

Legal Ethics: if you are going to commit a crime (like kill someone), do it before law school because they might still admit you to the bar. However, if you commit a crime during or after law school (like steal money from the moot court money box), they might not admit you to the DC bar because you are no longer reformable. We also learned that the law student who stole the moot court money was accepted by the California bar, and later was disbarred from stealing money from his clients.

Public Employment Law: how chickens are killed and cleaned at chicken processing plants, in explicit detail. Bet you did not know that they stun the chicken after they kill it. Confused? Just think of the phrase: running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

Administrative Law: thanks to the Food and Drug Administration regulations, candies such as whoopers are labeled chocolate even though they contain no cocoa butter.

Externship at the American University General Counsel's Office: there are more munitions buried under American University than munitions found buried in Iraq. They are leftover from when the Department of War used AU for its chemical weapons program during WWI and WWII. (Read more here).

Who says law school is not fun?

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