From Paula Kutch, Registrar:
Exam number cards are now available to be picked up in the Registrar’s Office during regular business hours.
Students should plan to pick up exam number cards in advance of the due date of an assignment or the date of an exam. Students are not permitted to pick up exam cards for other students.
Exam numbers are needed for retrieving grades from the Law Center website at the end of the semester.
9.29.2008
Need a Personal Assistant?
Try JOTT. With JOTT (a free service), you call a toll-free number and tell it what you what to do or remember, and then JOTT does it for you. This is perfect for remembering things for your to-do list, adding appointments to your calendar, and even updating your Facebook status.
Here's how it works:
You set up a JOTT account and sync it to your mobile phone. From there, you can sync JOTT with any number of other applications. If you have Remember the Milk, for example, you can sync it with your RTM account. Let's say you want to remind yourself to pick up ice for your organization's next meeing. Call JOTT and say, "Remember the Milk" and then "pick up ice tomorrow." JOTT will access your Remember the Milk Inbox and add "pick up ice" on tomorrow's to-do list. Or let's say you want to remember to calendar a meeting with a professor and you use Google Calendar. Call JOTT and say, "Google Calendar" and then "meet with Prof. Citron next Wednesday at 3:00 p.m." JOTT will access Google Calendar and add "meet with Prof. Citron" at 3:00 p.m. on the next Wednesday on the calendar.
JOTT is a great way to help keep you organized whether you're organized or not. You just have to remember to call JOTT each time you have something you want to remember. JOTT takes care of the rest.
Here's how it works:
You set up a JOTT account and sync it to your mobile phone. From there, you can sync JOTT with any number of other applications. If you have Remember the Milk, for example, you can sync it with your RTM account. Let's say you want to remind yourself to pick up ice for your organization's next meeing. Call JOTT and say, "Remember the Milk" and then "pick up ice tomorrow." JOTT will access your Remember the Milk Inbox and add "pick up ice" on tomorrow's to-do list. Or let's say you want to remember to calendar a meeting with a professor and you use Google Calendar. Call JOTT and say, "Google Calendar" and then "meet with Prof. Citron next Wednesday at 3:00 p.m." JOTT will access Google Calendar and add "meet with Prof. Citron" at 3:00 p.m. on the next Wednesday on the calendar.
JOTT is a great way to help keep you organized whether you're organized or not. You just have to remember to call JOTT each time you have something you want to remember. JOTT takes care of the rest.
9.27.2008
Too much to remember? Can't get organized?
There's a great web-based to-do list called Remember the Milk. You can add things to your do list from any computer and then access it from any computer. You can sync it with Google Calendar, your Blackberry, and your iPhone. And if you don't use any of those, there's just a regular old mobile version you can use with any phone with web access.
On RTM, you can have lists by category. You can tag the lists with certain terms. And you can invite other people to view your list. So let's say you have a to-do list for a project . . . you could share that list with the rest of your committee or e-board or whatever. As things get done, whoever does them can cross it off the list so everybody knows it's not just hanging out there. You can have a shopping list that you share with a roommate, significant other, or spouse . . . so if they get to the store before you do, they can pick up whatever is on the list and cross it off.
On RTM, you can have lists by category. You can tag the lists with certain terms. And you can invite other people to view your list. So let's say you have a to-do list for a project . . . you could share that list with the rest of your committee or e-board or whatever. As things get done, whoever does them can cross it off the list so everybody knows it's not just hanging out there. You can have a shopping list that you share with a roommate, significant other, or spouse . . . so if they get to the store before you do, they can pick up whatever is on the list and cross it off.
9.26.2008
Coping with Depression in Higher Ed
NPR story on coping with depression as a young adult getting an education. The story is interesting, but -- even more -- it tells a familiar story to anyone who has coped with a mental illness while trying to get through a degree program.
9.23.2008
Contextualizing Legal Education
Touro Law Center will be hosting a conference on October 3, 2008, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Enriching the curriculum by adding instruction in skills and values has been an important goal of Touro’s curricular reform. The inauguration of the Public Advocacy Center in Fall 2007 has expanded student opportunities to fulfill the profession’s obligation of public service and the conference will include a report on the status and achievements of the Public Advocacy Center. One aspect of our curriculum revision is the Court Observation Program. The afternoon portion of this conference
will focus on reviewing, assessing and improving the Court Observation Program and will feature a report prepared by the Center for Court Innovation which conducted a survey designed to help us evaluate the Program.
Confirmed speakers include Robert MacCrate, principal author of the MacCrate Report; Judith Wegner, principal author of the Carnegie Report; Vanessa Merton, contributor to the Best Practices Report; and Joseph Harbaugh, member of the ABA Special Committee on Outcome Measures.
Enriching the curriculum by adding instruction in skills and values has been an important goal of Touro’s curricular reform. The inauguration of the Public Advocacy Center in Fall 2007 has expanded student opportunities to fulfill the profession’s obligation of public service and the conference will include a report on the status and achievements of the Public Advocacy Center. One aspect of our curriculum revision is the Court Observation Program. The afternoon portion of this conference
will focus on reviewing, assessing and improving the Court Observation Program and will feature a report prepared by the Center for Court Innovation which conducted a survey designed to help us evaluate the Program.
Confirmed speakers include Robert MacCrate, principal author of the MacCrate Report; Judith Wegner, principal author of the Carnegie Report; Vanessa Merton, contributor to the Best Practices Report; and Joseph Harbaugh, member of the ABA Special Committee on Outcome Measures.
9.22.2008
Exam Numbers for Midterms
If you do not have your exam number in time for a midterm exam, you should use the last 5 digits of your social security number. That number can later be matched to your exam number.
9.20.2008
NAPW Law Student Writing Competition
The National Association for Pregnant Women is holding a writing competition for law students.
Issues of concern to pregnant and birthing women have often been missing from discussion in law school courses and among reproductive rights activists. Thanks in large part to public education efforts by writers, filmmakers, and community activists, there is an unprecedented amount of attention and momentum surrounding the rights of pregnant and birthing women. To advance these efforts further, NAPW has developed two writing contests. NAPW and numerous Co-Sponsors and Supporters (to be announced) hope that these contests will leverage the enthusiasm and creativity of a new generation of feminist legal scholars and spark critical thinking about the need to address childbirth and birthing rights as constitutional and human rights issues.
The first contest asks for a critical analysis of the absence of birthing rights issues from gender discrimination and feminist jurisprudence textbooks and curricula (in fact, none of the top three casebooks used in law school courses dedicated to gender and the law address the issue of childbirth or midwifery). The second contest asks students to develop legal theories that can be used to challenge policies banning pregnant women from having a vaginal birth after a prior caesarean section (VBAC). This topic will encourage students to address a growing problem that has received very little attention from the feminist legal community both in academia and within the leading women's rights legal advocacy organizations.
Submission Guidelines
Other questions about the contest?
Send Inquiries to: writingcontest@advocatesforpregnantwomen.org
Issues of concern to pregnant and birthing women have often been missing from discussion in law school courses and among reproductive rights activists. Thanks in large part to public education efforts by writers, filmmakers, and community activists, there is an unprecedented amount of attention and momentum surrounding the rights of pregnant and birthing women. To advance these efforts further, NAPW has developed two writing contests. NAPW and numerous Co-Sponsors and Supporters (to be announced) hope that these contests will leverage the enthusiasm and creativity of a new generation of feminist legal scholars and spark critical thinking about the need to address childbirth and birthing rights as constitutional and human rights issues.
The first contest asks for a critical analysis of the absence of birthing rights issues from gender discrimination and feminist jurisprudence textbooks and curricula (in fact, none of the top three casebooks used in law school courses dedicated to gender and the law address the issue of childbirth or midwifery). The second contest asks students to develop legal theories that can be used to challenge policies banning pregnant women from having a vaginal birth after a prior caesarean section (VBAC). This topic will encourage students to address a growing problem that has received very little attention from the feminist legal community both in academia and within the leading women's rights legal advocacy organizations.
Submission Guidelines
Other questions about the contest?
Send Inquiries to: writingcontest@advocatesforpregnantwomen.org
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