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Harry Potter, law school, and the power of language

Posted by John Question: which famous academic is known by his students for having said, “Never let your skill exceed your virtue?” Was it (A) Albus Dumbledore or (B) Yale Law School’s former Dean...

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The importance of legalese

(posted by John) One thing most people like even less than lawyers is the legalese that they have made so ubiquitous in our lives. By legalese, I mean the legal speak that we see in things like...

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Parsing the Constitution

Some of the most delightful moments for an ex-linguistics student in law school are when legal analysis clearly intersects with linguistic analysis. That connection was part of what drove me to come to...

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