Comments on: UO Offers to Help Students Affected by Katrina http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/09/02/uo-offers-to-help-students-affected-by-katrina/ Free Minds, Free Markets, Free Booze Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:32:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Danimal http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/09/02/uo-offers-to-help-students-affected-by-katrina/#comment-1515 Danimal Sat, 03 Sep 2005 03:10:32 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/09/02/uo-offers-to-help-students-affected-by-katrina/#comment-1515 Of course, hand-wringing over fucking law students seems a little disgusting at this point. Believe me: we will be fine. Of course, hand-wringing over fucking law students seems a little disgusting at this point. Believe me: we will be fine.

]]> By: Danimal http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/09/02/uo-offers-to-help-students-affected-by-katrina/#comment-1514 Danimal Sat, 03 Sep 2005 03:07:30 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/09/02/uo-offers-to-help-students-affected-by-katrina/#comment-1514 One wrinkle to this is with law students. I know that the Law School is planning to take on refugee students, and is actively searching for housing for them. However, the legal system presents two complications. First, the American Bar Association is the NCAA of law schools, and it has strict rules against transfers after the end of the first year. (The idea being that the first year is pretty much uniform, but after that each law school diverges in its curriculum. Why this would counsel against transfers is beyond me.) Second, Louisiana is the redheaded stepchild of American law. Much of their legal landscape derives from French civil law rather than good old red-blooded English common law. I don't know to what extent this affects Louisiana legal education, but it seems that it would be a big issue. One wrinkle to this is with law students. I know that the Law School is planning to take on refugee students, and is actively searching for housing for them. However, the legal system presents two complications.

First, the American Bar Association is the NCAA of law schools, and it has strict rules against transfers after the end of the first year. (The idea being that the first year is pretty much uniform, but after that each law school diverges in its curriculum. Why this would counsel against transfers is beyond me.)

Second, Louisiana is the redheaded stepchild of American law. Much of their legal landscape derives from French civil law rather than good old red-blooded English common law. I don’t know to what extent this affects Louisiana legal education, but it seems that it would be a big issue.

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