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Monday Morning Message 9.23.19 A Law School Without Walls
“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” -Albert Einstein
We are a law school without walls.
Every week throughout the academic year, we facilitate free expression and foster a culture where our students learn not only in the classroom but also through engagement and respectful discourse and dialogue with experts and thought leaders throughout the world about the issues that shape our future.
Monday Morning Message 9.16.19 The Most Powerful Vision of Freedom Ever Expressed
“What makes the Constitution worthy of our commitment? First and foremost, the answer is our freedom. It is, quite simply, the most powerful vision of freedom ever expressed. It’s also the world’s shortest and oldest national constitution, neither so rigid as to be stifling, nor so malleable as to be devoid of meaning….What was revolutionary when it was written, and what continues to inspire the world today, is that the Constitution put governance in the hands of the people.” -former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
Monday Morning Message 9.9.19 Their Future is our Future
“Words cannot express the gratitude I have for the scholarship you all have so kindly decided to offer me. You all have given me the opportunity to fulfill my destiny and for that I am forever grateful. My son will one day be able to say that his mother was given a chance despite financial hardship, and this blessing can teach him that if you dream big enough no obstacle will be big enough.” – 1L Student, Class of 2022
“There is this energy surrounding the school and its legacy and I want nothing more than to be a part of it. Thank you so much for everything through the process!” -1L Student, Class of 2022
Monday Morning Message 9.9.19 Their Future is our Future
“Words cannot express the gratitude I have for the scholarship you all have so kindly decided to offer me. You all have given me the opportunity to fulfill my destiny and for that I am forever grateful. My son will one day be able to say that his mother was given a chance despite financial hardship, and this blessing can teach him that if you dream big enough no obstacle will be big enough.” – 1L Student, Class of 2022
“There is this energy surrounding the school and its legacy and I want nothing more than to be a part of it. Thank you so much for everything through the process!” -1L Student, Class of 2022
Monday Morning Message 9.9.19 First Monday. Last Friday.
“It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court starts its new term – the first Monday in October - an historical tradition that goes back to 1917.
With the backdrop of the dramatic congressional impeachment inquiry, the Supreme Court will hear major cases about LGBTQ rights, immigration, abortion, guns, and religion.
Monday Morning Message 9.9.19 First Monday. Last Friday.
“It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court starts its new term – the first Monday in October - an historical tradition that goes back to 1917.
With the backdrop of the dramatic congressional impeachment inquiry, the Supreme Court will hear major cases about LGBTQ rights, immigration, abortion, guns, and religion.
Monday Morning Message 9.3.19 New frontiers for legal jobs
“The more we go out there and spend time out there, all the things we do here are going to happen in space.” – C|M|LAW Professor Mark Sundahl, New York Times, August 23, 2019
Since Monday was Labor Day, this message is about the new frontiers of law, labor, and work.
When our son, Jason, graduated from college, we asked him the question many parents ask their children, “what do you want to do with your life?” Jason said something I never would have thought to say to my parents. He said “Mom, Dad – what I want to do hasn’t been invented yet.”
Monday Morning Message 8.26.19 A new year and rising excellence
“Get ready to embark on a wild ride unlike anything you’ve ever experienced, packed with thrills, chills, and probably a few spills. Being a 1L will challenge you like you’ve never been challenged….. The first year of law school will be one of the hardest years of your life. Law school will profoundly alter the way you think, and view and interact with the world around you. Your 1L experience will change who you are, whether you want it to or not. “ Andrew McClurg, 1L of a Ride, A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School
Monday Morning Message 8.19.19 Welcome to our incoming class
“Study while others are sleeping, decide while others are delaying, prepare while others are daydreaming, begin while others are procrastinating, work while others are wishing, persist while others are quitting” - Anonymous Dean of an Anonymous Law School
Monday Morning Message 8.12.19 Hate Speech and the First Amendment
“The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another….. We want order and security, and we want liberty…..” - Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter
Nineteen minutes before the first 911 call alerted the authorities to a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, a hate-filled, anti-immigrant manifesto appeared online by the same man who killed 20 innocent people.
Can the penalty for his horrific crime be increased because he wrote those hateful words? As repugnant as his words were, is such a penalty enhancement a violation of free speech under the First Amendment?