Help! I am addicted! May 30, 2005
Posted by atharkhan in : Law School , add a commentHelp!! I am addicted to Law & Order…
Now that I am taking Criminal Procedure, I am totally hooked onto this show. Its unbelievable how many legal terms they use and how accurate everything is. I am watching it at a whole new level. The other day, I had just done my reading on Privacy and the 4th Amendment…and boom!…The L&A was about just that. Man… I watched 4 shows last night and was up till 5 AM! I need to break this habit before it becomes as insane as it used to be with “The Practice.”
The thing I liked about The Practice (and now Boston Legal) is that these are the only two shows that I know of that represent the defense side of things…..something that is not thought very highly of by people not within the legal field. In fact, I am sure even self-righteous attorneys look down on them. Its interesting to watch how the system is a product of checks and balances. I guess thats what makes it work.
My personal interest lies in Intellectual Property. I am a techie at heart (I really wanted to grow up to be a geek but I cant write any code!!) and this is the closest thing to it in Law. Plus, there are no crying children, dead bodies, homes being split up, divorces, custody battles…. in other words, there isnt a lot of human suffering…or atleast thats what I am hoping it will be.
Anyway, speaking of Intellectual Property, I need to go and read about 210 pages of Patent Law by tomorrow… guess how many I have read so far? Thats right! zero! But, that was because I was busy as heck reading 7 Supreme Court cases on Privacy….and watching Law & Order ofcourse :-)
Bye for now!
Finally Updated my Website May 28, 2005
Posted by atharkhan in : Law School, Personal , add a commentPhew! I finally updated my website last night. Added a section on law (with outlines, etc) and also created some Wikis for some legal subjects.
Simply put, a Wiki is a web-page that can be edited by anyone. The concept is that if enough people make changes to the information, it will constantly evolve and be helpful to everyone. An excellent example of a Wiki is Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) which is a world class encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
My Wikis are at http://atharkhan.jot.com. I pasted the text of my outlines as a starting point. Hopefully other people will take it from there.
Criminal Procedure May 27, 2005
Posted by atharkhan in : Law School , add a commentMy first class on Crim Pro was last night. Wow! The professor is so insanely good that I could feel my brain getting stretched like a rubber band… the information was just flooding in! I felt like Neo when he said “I Know Kung Fu!!” in The Matrix.
In the first class we learned about the Necker Cube and how the same thing (analogy for argument) can look different from different angles (different points of view).
We went over the composition of the Supreme Court. Currently, the composition is Liberal (Stevens, Breyer, Ginsberg) Moderate (O’Connor, Kennedy, Sutter) and Conservative (Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas)
We went over Wolf v. Colorado and Mapp v. Ohio. It was pretty cool to learn how the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments were made applicable to the states through the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
You guessed it! We were talking about the controversial Exclusionary Rule by which any evidence obtained through an illegal search and seizure is excluded from the trial. I wont spoil it for you by getting into it here but I will tell you this much… this will be a discussion to remember :-)
Now, I need to go work on my reading for next week. Bye for now :-)
