Military Law Society

I posted a link to the Community of Veterans site to the "links" on the side of the page, but I wanted to draw some attention to it here as well. This is a "social networking site" for returning veterans (although I assume that all veterans are welcome).

There are many good links on this page including a link to a family & friends website. Additionally, there are links to help navigate the VA site, to news services, to mental health resources, and of course, the requisite blog.

So, if you know a returning veteran and you think they might be interested in the site, then by all means, send them the link.

http://communityofveterans.org

- Bryan

Here is something pretty cool that Xerox is doing.

If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services.

- Bryan

UPDATE: due to the concentrated efforts of Professor Lazaroff, CULS has decided that I meet the requirements to graduate with the civil litigaiton concentration on my transcript. Therefore, for all intensive purposes, I will be the first person to graduate with the new designation. Thank you, Professor Lazaroff.

One and a half years ago I began lobbying CULS to implement a litigation concentration. Well, my litigation concentration was finally approved and will be in place for Spring semester, 2009. I suppose joy and accolades all around should be bestowed upon me as I am a real man of genius for initially submitting this concentration. I mean I changed the CULS curriculum forever, right? However, I deny your ticker tape parades, your massage parlors, and your offers for lascivious acts. I mean after all, “I do not think there ever could be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would not be every bit as ferocious as the father.” - Gore Vidal. That's me, right?

The cloud on this silver lining is that CULS implemented my litigation concentration. Part of my original pitch included a list of classes that, in my opinion, would be the most applicable to such a concentration. I took time to walk through the catalog of suggested classes to extract the most appropriate classes. I pitched the idea to the SBA, and asked them throw their support behind it, which they did so very willingly. I took this list and then ran it past Professor Brad Smith who approved of it as well as the concentration and resultingly pitched the concentration to the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC). The AAC approved the concentration but felt the need to appoint someone special to review the list of suggested classes. So, they approved the concentration but not the class list. Fine, I wasn't too worried about that, I knew the overall class list and believe that even if they made small changes, it wouldn't make that mush difference, and the concentration as I invented and pitched it wouild remain intact. I underestimated the group mentality process.

The AAC pitched the concentration to the faculty committee. I have a certain opinion of the majority of the decision making faculty at this school. This isn't everyone, just a majority of the people I have interacted with in one way or another. My belief has been 100% cememted as accurate to myself, if nobody else. The faculty, in approving my concentration, split it into a criminal litigation concentraiton and a civil litigation concentration. My question then, is why? In a school that strives to give their students the most well rounded and general education possible, why would they pigeonhole a concentration like this? I wrote to a number of people asking them for the reasoning behind this, but have yet to receive a response.

I knew something would get fucked up when I gave control of this thing over to someone else. I did everything I could to stay in the loop and even offered to make oral arguments at every step of the way to ensure that my concentration was kept intact. However, once the concentration left my hands, only Professor Smith kept me updated and I thank him for that. As for everyone else, well, see generally my feelings about this faculty. As much as I tried to stay in touch with everyone whose fingerprints were on this, it proved impossible through email. I learned long ago that the only way to deal with this faculty is face to face. The only way I even found out about the concentration being approved is because one of the Deans told me about it.

My initial reaction upon hearing that the concentration was split was that I would not qualify for the concentration because I wouldn't have the requisit classes. Therfore, I would not be able to graduate with MY concentration on my transcript. Emails to the professors that have been placed in charge of each concentration have confirmed this. There is a possibility that I could take a 3rd legal drafting class (LD I being the first and General Practice being the second) and possibly qualify for the criminal concentration. However, (1) at this point I don't know if I want to take another drafting class in my last semester; (2) Since they haven't listed the requirements yet, I don't know if I would qualify anyway because I don't know what the other classes are and (3) I don't know that I want to pigeonhole myself with either a crmiinal or a civil litigation concentration. This is why I pitched a general litigation concentration.

Do I want some recognition for this? It wouldn't hurt but I won't lose any sleep over it; that is not the reason I initially pitched the idea of a litigation concentration. Do I want to graduate with MY concentration on my transcript? This is the only reason I pitched it in the first place.

Fail - CULS.

Watch. Wallet. Gun.

Knee. Right foot. Left foot.

Shatner

This country needs a revolution. but in what form? Will we host another 1776? I don't think so. So how about a Constitutional convention? Don't hold your breath.

*Soviet Union established gun control in 1929. From 1929 to 1953, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

* Nazi Germany fully established gun control in 1938. That helped the government to round up 13 million defenseless Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill and impaired human beings. Many were imprisoned in concentration camps, then destroyed.

*Turkey established gun control in 1911. From 1915 to 1917 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

*China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1976 20 million Anti-Communists, Christians, political dissidents and pro-reform groups, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

*Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

*Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

*Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977 1 million "educated people," unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and executed.

A free man with a firearm has a fighting chance against any would-be gangster or criminal. An disarmed man does not. Every time you disarm the citizenry, you open the door to government tyranny.

Stand Down is an event for homeless veterans that has been held for about the last 12 years in Columbus. The event provides all kinds of services for homeless veterans including medical check-ups, insurance information, haircuts, clothing distribution, and legal services.

Last week I volunteered along with Miranda Gahn in the legal services section. It was a really great experience for me. Local attorneys volunteer their time to help any veteran with pretty much any legal problem they walk in with. As a student, I was able to sit with an attorney and watch his interview process and I even had the opportunity to interview some of the veterans as well.

This is a great event because veterans who have no other way of obtaining legal help can come in for free and obtain advice from a lawyer and may even have a lawyer choose to represent them. I recommend that MLS do this event every year. It is a great way to give back to those who choose to serve and protect us.

Here is the updated list of our outline bank. For all dues paying members, all of these outlines are available at any time, just email any member of the X-board with your request.

If there is a class listed and no teacher indicated, it means we have an outline for the class, but no specific teacher.

Advanced Crim Pro

BA I
Burch
Steele
Wood

BA II
Steele
Burch
Wood

Civ Pro
Jurisdiction
Darling
Gilles
Upchurch

Rules
Darling
Gilles

Con Law
I
Strasser
Beattie
Brown

II
Strasser
Beattie
Brown

Consumer Bankruptcy
Ferriell

Contracts (I&II)
Westlaw
Wolmouth
Turack
Cordray
UCC’s

Copyright
Mayer

Crim Law
Bluth

Crim Pro
Kobil
Bluth

Decedent’s Estates
Grauer
Looper

Estate & Gift Tax

Evidence
Bluth
Rozelle
Cordray

Family Law

Forensic Evidence
Squires

Mediation

Origins of Western Law
McElwee

Payment Systems
Distlehorst

Professional Responsibility
Tibbles
Twiss

Property
I
Looper
Mays

II
Cohen
Looper
Mays

Secured Transactions
Ferriel
Distelhorst

Tax
Wood
Grauer

Torts
I
Kobil
Upchurch

II
Darling
Kobil
Gilles
Full Year - Blocher

Trusts & Future Interests
Grauer