Monthly Archives: March 2009

Why Every Law Student Should Be a Gunner

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The latest issue of the Arizona State Law Journal (Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 2008) just crossed my desk and the Essay by Robert M. Lloyd “Why Every Law Student Should Be a Gunner” caught my eye.  Professor Lloyd lists six reasons why students should speak up in class, and I couldn’t agree with him more.  As someone who, on occasion, has been asked to be a reference for a student seeking a clerkship I can personally attest to his Reason VI.

Here are his six reasons:

I. Reason One: Volunteering in Class Will Make You a Pariah Among Your Classmates (and you should read the article to see why this is a good thing!).

II. Reason Two: You’ll Learn the Material Better

III. Reason Three: You’ll Help Your Classmates Learn

IV. Reason Four: It’s Fun (fun for you, and fun for we who teach!)

V. Reason Five: It’s Good Practice for What You’ll Be Doing as a Lawyer

VI. Reason Six: It Will Get You a Job

More on the Durham Statement, and a note on law review symposium issues

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Duke’s Dick Danner was interviewed by his school’s news service.  The resulting article, “Legal scholarship: To print or not to print?,” from Duke Law News & Events, discusses the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship

Dick mentions symposium issues.  Here at Stanford we’ve been separately cataloging and binding law review symposium issues for years.  This adds a new tool for access to law review content (via the OPAC), and it also enables patrons to find the issues while browsing the stacks (yes, some patrons still do this — to their great benefit).  Our interlibrary loan person tells me that we have received a number of requests for these “monographs,” with the requestor sometimes noting “only you appear to have this item” (which makes us chuckle, but we’re very happy to spread the word about this very useful material).

Here is a sample record:

Title: Symposium : stare decisis and nonjudicial actors.
Portion of title: Stare decisis and nonjudicial actors
Imprint: Notre Dame, IN : Notre Dame Law School, c2008.
Physical Description: p. 875-1416 ; 26 cm.
Note: Cover title.
Note: Special issue of Notre Dame law review, v. 83, no. 3 (May 2008).
Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Articles: Standing at the crossroads : the Roberts Court in historical perspective / Maxwell L. Stearns – The culpability of felony murder / Guyora Binder –Three faces of deference / Paul Horwitz — Symposium: Stare decisis and the Constitution : four questions and answers / Thomas Healy — Lincoln and judicial authority / Michael Stokes Paulsen — Polyphonic stare decisis : listening to non-Article III actors / Kermit Roosevelt III — Legislative and executive stare decisis / Mark Tushnet.
Subject (LC): Stare decisis–United States

Subject (LC): Judicial power–United States.
Organization: University of Notre Dame. Law School.
Title: Notre Dame law review.

LAW CALL NUMBER                                          
   1)KF429 .S965 2008           

For many more samples, visit our catalog at:

catalog.stanford.edu

or

Socrates.stanford.edu

and seach for the word “symposium” in the title field and limit the location to the law library.