I know quite a few people who do both Moot Court and law review or another journal here, and it's workable, mostly because the moot ct commitment is fairly compressed into about 2 months or so, maybe a little less (per team). Moot court will be more useful to you in your career (in a practical sense), but law review has the prestige factor. Getting published is good, though if you don't make law review, you can also submit your note elsewhere (to other topical journals) if you so desire. good luck with both!
Yep, my law review article targets welfare people, and the legal research would be on legal aid and low income families. My classes will be civil rights, employment discrimination, human rights, immigration and the law and children and the law :-)
Additionally, the Inter-America int'l human rights work targets int'l human rights violations in south america, and the international human rights legal society tries to get money for various funds and educate people on campus re: things going on.
So I think I can really help people in the future, no matter which direction I take.
Am I convincing you yet? ;-) ...deadline is in June...
Yes, actually. FIU did you say? Full scholarship? I suppose I should start practicing the LSAT. :)
A couple years ago when I was really down in the dumps and just desperate to hear something about a change in school or career, I had a dream about going to law school. I woke up with tears in my eyes and told my parents that God had spoken to me.
After my plan to change schools did not pan out, and after I graduated with my Engineering degree, I got stopped cold. I mean how in the world do you just wake up and say that God told you something? It's ridiculous! It's also scary, the presumptuousness of it. I went into full retreat on that, deciding that my desperation had manufactured a message out of nothing. Besides, we already have 1 lawyer in the family, an alum of both Columbia and NYU school of law. I have no wish to follow in her footsteps of working 80-hour weeks
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If you're serious about law school, apply for the June LSAT. I studied for only 6 weeks and got a 157 or something on mine - I'm sure you can do a lot better
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I know quite a few people who do both Moot Court and law review or another journal here, and it's workable, mostly because the moot ct commitment is fairly compressed into about 2 months or so, maybe a little less (per team). Moot court will be more useful to you in your career (in a practical sense), but law review has the prestige factor. Getting published is good, though if you don't make law review, you can also submit your note elsewhere (to other topical journals) if you so desire. good luck with both!
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The Good
I'm 20 now
The Bad
I'm 20 now
The Ugly
I'm 20 now
HAHAHA!
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Do you feel like you're still really helping people?
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Additionally, the Inter-America int'l human rights work targets int'l human rights violations in south america, and the international human rights legal society tries to get money for various funds and educate people on campus re: things going on.
So I think I can really help people in the future, no matter which direction I take.
Am I convincing you yet? ;-) ...deadline is in June...
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A couple years ago when I was really down in the dumps and just desperate to hear something about a change in school or career, I had a dream about going to law school. I woke up with tears in my eyes and told my parents that God had spoken to me.
After my plan to change schools did not pan out, and after I graduated with my Engineering degree, I got stopped cold. I mean how in the world do you just wake up and say that God told you something? It's ridiculous! It's also scary, the presumptuousness of it. I went into full retreat on that, deciding that my desperation had manufactured a message out of nothing. Besides, we already have 1 lawyer in the family, an alum of both Columbia and NYU school of law. I have no wish to follow in her footsteps of working 80-hour weeks ( ... )
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