We made it! Cue the balloon drop! Finals are over!!! Wooohoo!!!
Genaro took his last final on Thursday, and I finished today, then we jetted off to a
Vampire Weekend concert which was a nice way to unwind.
Anyways! We thought we might log through our classes and share a little of what we learned over the semester. (In other words...on to some boring law stuff! You're warned to stop here if you're not interest!)
Felicia's Classes!
Administrative Law: Our government is so complex it boggles the mind, and the laws that deal with the gubillion agencies that have been created within our government boggled my mind for an entire semester. I had a love/hate relationship with this class--it was challenging, but every class it seemed like I was learning the secrets of the Federal Government. M'Waaahahaha. I also have to note that I learned about five hundred more acronyms in this class, my favorite was the Federal Advisory Committee Act, or FACA, because I got to say, "what the FACA!" while doing my homework. Ahhhh, the satisfactions of law school.
Public International Law: I had the funniest professor for this class. Imagine a genius, with a Scotish accent, continually telling you how "full of shit" the International Court of Justice is, or pausing class to explain how you can best differentiate a Scottish and English accent. Good times!
Genaro's Classes!
Energy Law: You're either with us or against us! Errr...that is, you're either with the energy company sympathizers or the energy company intolerant. At least at Lewis and Clark there is NO in between. Who would of thought energy law would get people so worked up? Answer: Apparently our professor because she gave us an EIGHT HOUR final.
Environmental Litigation: Best moment in this class? Getting more than 100% on a mock brief because it made a better argument than the real brief, in the real case, made by the real lawyer. He shoots, he scores!
Felica and Genaro's shared classes!
Professional Responsibility: You shouldn't steal from your clients, you shouldn't lie to courts, you shouldn't commit fraud, you shouldn't sleep with your clients (unless you were sleeping with them before they became your client), you shouldn't agree to settlements without your client's consent...blah...blah...so basically this class taught us "don't do stupid things." It was pretty entertaining (and sometimes concerning) though, to hear just how far some of our classmates tried to push the ethical boundaries.
Legal History: From the Code of Hamurabi to the laws of Colonial U.S. Phew! This class only had about a dozen students and led to the most congenial, open and interesting conversations about law and it's place in society that we have encountered thus far in law school. We quickly grew to like the professor too, who seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge of EVERYTHING, but we loved him even more when he showed up to the last class with pizza and wine! Why aren't all our classes like this? What are they really using our tuition money for? :)
Next semester, our LAST semester, we are looking forward to:
Law and Economics, Health Care Law, Legal Regulation and Political Practice, Business Associations, Trial Advocacy, Supreme Court Environmental Seminar, International Environmental Litigation Project, and more Legal History!
But for now -- it's BREAK TIME!!! WOOHOO!!!!
