Ga. implementing school board ethics policies
Associated Press – September 8, 2010 2:14 PM ET ATLANTA (AP) – School boards in Georgia will soon have more rules to follow. The Georgia Department of Education is implementing a law…
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Conn school chief ‘concerned’ about Taser incident
Middletown’s schools superintendent says he wants to meet with police to discuss why a high school student was Tasered for allegedly fighting with police over his alleged theft of a meat pie from the cafeteria. Police – Taser – Law – Law Enforcement – High school
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Philadelphia Bar Association to Present Six-Week Legal Education Program, ‘The People’s Law School’
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Area residents can receive basic information about areas of the law most likely to impact daily life at The People’s Law School, a six-week legal education program presented by volunteer attorneys from the Young Lawyers Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
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Complete video at: fora.tv Shepard Fairey, Steven Johnson, and Lawrence Lessig weigh the pros and cons of artistic freedom, fair use, and copyright law. —– What is the future for art and ideas in an age when practically anything can be copied, pasted, downloaded, sampled, and re-imagined? LIVE from the NYPL and WIRED Magazine kick off the Spring 2009 season with a spirited discussion of the emerging remix culture. Our guides through this new world–who will take us from Jefferson’s Bible to Andre the Giant to Wikipedia–will be Lawrence Lessig, author of Remix, founder of Creative Commons, and one of the leading legal scholars on intellectual property issues in the Internet age; acclaimed street artist Shepard Fairey, whose iconic Obama “HOPE” poster was recently acquired by the National Portrait Gallery; and cultural historian Steven Johnson, whose new book, The Invention of Air, argues that remix culture has deep roots in the Enlightenment and among the American founding fathers. Shepard Fairey shot to national fame as the graphic artist behind a 2008 iconic poster of Barack Obama, a portrait labeled simply “HOPE” and in a style that could be described as Andy Warhol meets Socialist Realism. Fairey, who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992, was already well known among graffiti artists and fans, thanks to one of Fairey’s early works of “guerilla” art, an impromptu stencil design based on an ad for Andre the Giant, a professional wrestler. Lawrence …
Law school grad finds calling
Karen Kudelko had many options when she graduated from Yale Law School this year.
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Jon Hanson’s lecture, “The Human Animal, Ideology, the Law & Other Situational Characters” was delivered at Harvard Law School (October 29, 2008) in honor of his appointment as the Alfred Smart Professor of Law (one day to be the the Alan Stone Professor of Law) at Harvard Law School. For more information on Professor Hanson’s work or to watch an unclipped version of the presentation (Run Time Approx. 42 min), please visit the Project on Law and Mind Sciences (PLMS) website. PLMS isites.harvard.edu The Situationist Blog thesituationist.wordpress.com Professor Hanson’s Faculty Page www.law.harvard.edu
I’m still a junior in college but I’m trying to plan out life. I want to study either political science (International Affairs), Criminal Justice, business, or marketing in college when I get in. I’m confident I’ll at least get into Rutgers (Live in New Jersey) or Penn State. Do the fields I study in college matter or effect if I get into law school? I’m also planning on joining the military and Peace Corps for a short time after college, in order to give back. Will these two benefit me?
I’ve heard there are some professions one can pursue after law school where you don’t have to go to court, what are some of them?