Saturday was a well-deserved break for everyone at the Law Review Carnival. (You mean there’s more to law review than cite-checking?). It was also an opportunity for my students to seek well-earned revenge when I volunteered to sit in the dunk tank! Many thanks to Andrea A., Flor M., and Jenny N. for photos & vids. One of […]
I’ll be speaking next Friday, March 20 in Miami at Hispanicize Week 2015. It looks to be a great event. My panel’s topic is Protect Your Work! A Legal Primer on Copyright Law for Digital Content Creators. The panel will be moderated by my friend Teresita Chavez Pedrosa, formerly with St. Thomas Law. The panelists will be: Jessie Abad of Estefan Enterprises Jason […]
I know that law students tend to dislike math. But math can be cool. For those of us not in the know, March 14 is Pi Day, celebrating the mysterious ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. The number is irrational, so there is no end to its number of digits. Go to 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com (or here) […]
As my Civ Pro students know, I like to analogize supplemental jurisdiction to an ice cream cone: The cone is the federal district court. The ice cream is original jurisdiction. Examples include sections 1331, 1332, 1335, 1338, etc. The sprinkles are supplemental jurisdiction. Can you have an ice cream cone without ice cream? No, that’d […]
