Friday Links

There are some problems with the events depicted on the cover of Justice League of America #69, shown above and published way back in 1969.  Green Arrow is informed simultaneously that he has been both charged and convicted – apparently in absentia – with murder.  There’s nothing really just (or American, for that matter) about conducting a criminal prosecution in that fashion, although that’s apparently the way the Justice League of America rolls.  Shouldn’t Green Arrow have been properly arrested, appointed counsel, indicted, and tried to verdict? Nevertheless, the members of the JLA – even Superman! – add insult to injury by unanimously displaying turned down thumbs to the crestfallen arrow-slinger. You’d also think they would have disarmed Green Arrow before sharing this news.

Brian Comer discovers the Stiletto Heel Warranty in South Carolina. Who knew? It’s apparently in the statutes somewhere.

Congratulations to the Charleston School of Law for receiving full accreditation from the American Bar Association. More details here. (Hat Tip: The Faculty Lounge).

In a post entitled “Golden Retriever Takes Stand in New York Criminal Trial,” Ilya Somin of The Volokh Conspiracy recounts how, well, a dog recently “testified” in court in New York. There’s much that can be said about this development. However, we here at Abnormal Use can say only one thing: there is a precedent for this.

Did we mention that our firm’s new marketing director, Cortney Easterling, has joined Twitter? You can follow her at @CortEasterling.

There’s a bit of a scandal in the legal blogosphere this week.  Apparently, a law professor, sick of the “scam” he has found legal education to be, has started an anonymous law blog to lodge his presumably many complaints.  He goes by the pseudonym LawProf and has named his blog Inside The Law School Scam. Here’s a sample from his first post:

I can no longer ignore that, for a very large proportion of my students, law school has become something very much like a scam. And who is doing the scamming? On the most general level, the American economy in the second decade of the 21st century. On a more specific level, the legal profession as a whole. But on what, for legal academics at least, ought to be the most particular, most important, and most morally and practically compelling level, the scammers are the 200 ABA-accredited law schools.  Yet there is no such thing as a “law school” that scams its students — law schools are abstract social institutions, not concrete moral agents. When people say “law school is a scam,” what that really means, at the level of actual moral responsibility, is that law professors are scamming their students.

We’ll be watching this would be Howard Beale of American legal education, if only to keep abreast of the burgeoning scandal. By the way, we wouldn’t ordinarily link the name Howard Beale to its corresponding Wikipedia entry, but you must understand that most junior associates were born -after- the release of Network. (Hat Tip: PrawfsBlawg and Volokh Conspiracy).

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