Archive for the 'Law-ing' Category

Something is About to Start

Posted by Vivek on August 20th, 2007

A bit of apprehension, but more so a state of consideration for what might come this year. A few hours spent reading in preparation. And a last look at the television and other local purveyors of leisure. A washing and drying of clothes. A cleaning out of the bag. A […]

On the verge of completion

Posted by Vivek on August 3rd, 2007

There are a lot of things that I would rather do right now than face the nasty prospect of writing 20 pages of pithy legal memoranda in the next four or five hours.  I really don’t revel in it.  Really.
But I’ve dug myself into a whole hole this time, procrastinating a bit and piecing through […]

Dear Friends - Please come out to this conference on April 13th and 14th, 2007 at UCLA School of Law. It will be an opportunity to discuss some of the most critical issues of our time, to discuss Critical Race Theory and where its been and where its going, and to engage with practitioners, […]

First Semester Retrospective

Posted by Vivek on December 1st, 2006

At the edges of the semester, I start to reminisce. A knee-jerk reaction, conditioned through the many times I’ve been forced to cut loose from something old and into something new, more than often unwillingly. Spending spots of time in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Georgia while growing up, times when my father’s job was […]

Margins as Mainstream?

Posted by Vivek on October 15th, 2006

Its hard to know what to write about when most of what I think about these days is this strange abstraction called the law. Its contours, its restrictions, its normative motions are soaking up most of my time.
So how do I make this bloggable? Have I gotten so deep into this that it […]

Purple beans

Posted by Vivek on August 28th, 2006

I was cooking some beans the other day and I noticed a purple tinge on my stove, which was lily-white until I started cooking this pot o beans. I looked closer and noticed many spots, in different sizes, and different concentrations. Some translucent, some dark purple. Their thickness is directly related to […]

The first time

Posted by Vivek on August 18th, 2006

I had my first day of law school orientation today. Let me do a bullet point list of main highlights, so as to mimic the future I forsee as a law student, and a lawyer.

I heard the word ‘notwithstanding’ a lot. I forsee that word becoming a part of my daily lexicon within […]