After the Madness Ends
Hello ladies and gentlemen,
Congratulations on surviving another (or your first) semester! I know it was an exhausting one for me and probably for us all. Congratulations especially to our colleague Lauren Abinanti who is now a Pace Law GRADUATE! We wish you the best of luck on the February bar exam now that you've finished your studies at Pace. For the rest of us, now that the madness has subsided for a while, I wanted to post a few very important things for you to read about and consider for the spring.
First and foremost, the 26th Annual Federalist Society Student Symposium will be held on Feb. 23 and 24 at Northwestern University School of Law. (Thankfully, this is during our Winter Break week off!) The focus of the panel discussions and debate is Law and Morality this year. Click above to visit the symposium website for more info. Ex-Pace FedSoc president Scott Aronowitz and I attended last years student symposium at Columbia on International Law and it was absolutely fabulous. Chicago is a little further than Harlem, but the national office will reimburse half of your airfare expenses! The cost for the symposium is only $5 for members and the benefits are astronomical. One of the debates planned will be between Kevin "Seamus" Hasson, Founder and Chairman of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty v. Nadine Strossen, President of the ACLU and law professor nearby at NY Law School. The conference is an amazing opportunity to meet FedSoc student members from all over the country. Over 1,500 attended last year at Columbia. For me it was the first time I heard an entire room of hundreds of voices gasping in horror at the words "living Constitution" and "penumbra." Visit the website link above for more information or to register, go check out Jetblue.com for flight info, and feel free to e-mail me at pacelawfederalist@hotmail.com with any questions.
Next, I wanted to let you know that I have DVDs of our 2 speeches (Judge Robert S. Smith of the NY Court of Appeals and Solicitor of Labor Howard Radzely) and the Gun Control debate. If anyone is interested in viewing these, please let me know. I'm pleased to announce that we made the news in November with our event with Judge Smith. Check out the tiny mention we got in this article in the New York Sun.
The Federalist Society national organization is offering up to three $5,000 scholarships for law students working in the field of foreign affairs or national security studies. This is their website John Jay Fellowship and the application deadline for consideration is January 15, 2007. Click the link on the title for more information.
Another very exciting opportunity available is the Institute for Justice is now accepting applications for summer 2007 law clerks. The Institute for Justice (IJ) is an amazing Libertarian public interest legal organization in Washington DC. The IJ represented Suzette Kelo and other homeowners in the now infamous Kelo v. City of New London. Applications will be accepted until the end of December and they will begin interviewing potential clerks in January. Interested students should send a cover letter, resume and writing sample to training@ij.org or Attn: Clerkship Coordinator, Institute for Justice 901 N. Glebe Road, Suite 900, Arlington, VA 22203. Feel free to contact Krissy Keys at the IJ or visit the Institute for Justice website for more information.
Another outstanding opportunity for us is the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, sponsored by the Alliance Defense Fund, which is a crucial cog in identifying and comprehensively training the next generation of Christian law students committed to bedrock constitutional principles, rigorous public debate, and the faithful application of the rule of law. This world class Internship provides airfare, lodging, most meals, plus a generous scholarship stipend of $6,300. And, at least ten placements have been secured internationally, including ones in London and Rome. Imagine: Six weeks in the UK or Italy with airfare and housing provided—together with a weekly stipend of approximately
$1000 for qualified applicants. Securing an offer for the Internship is competitive and the application process is rigorous, but the benefit outweighs the burden. You can learn more by consulting www.telladf.org and navigating to "The Blackstone Legal Fellowship." Applications can be submitted on-line, but must be received no later than January 22, 2007.
For anyone interested in clerking this summer in Florida, the Honorable Frank A. Shepherd of the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami, FL is seeking applications from qualified students who will have two years of law school experience as of the end of the fall semester to serve as unpaid legal interns in his chambers this summer. Summer interns work directly with him and his staff members doing legal research, assisting me in preparing for oral arguments, and performing other matters traditionally done by an appellate research assistant. The court is located in Miami, Florida, and handles all appellate matters arising in Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties ranging from civil (tort, contract, family, etc.) to criminal and some agency appeals. With rare exceptions, it is the court of last resort for this area. Interested persons may apply by mailing a cover letter, resume, transcript, and writing sample to:
The Honorable Frank A. Shepherd
Third District Court of Appeal
2001 S.W. 117 Avenue
Miami, Florida 33175-1716
The application deadline is Friday, February 2, 2007.
An historic debate between Justice Steven Breyer and Justice Antonin Scalia is availabe to view or listen to at the FedSoc website. This is an awesome discussion, I urge you all to check out. You can find it here at the FedSoc website.
And finally, those of us who are members of the national organization may have noticed that our Voting Rights Act debater, Dr. Abigail Thernstrom, wrote about the VRARA in the Fall/Winter issue of Engage which we received (or should have received) in the mail last month. Oh so many advantages to membership in the national organization. $5 Student Symposium plus a half travel scholarship, Engage magazine, webcasts of SCOTUS debates, scholarship and employment opportunities...the benefits never end! Still not a member? Sign up for $5 a year at FedSoc website.
(Note to Lauren, sign up today because you'll also receive a free one year membership as a lawyers chapter member!)
Congratulations on surviving another (or your first) semester! I know it was an exhausting one for me and probably for us all. Congratulations especially to our colleague Lauren Abinanti who is now a Pace Law GRADUATE! We wish you the best of luck on the February bar exam now that you've finished your studies at Pace. For the rest of us, now that the madness has subsided for a while, I wanted to post a few very important things for you to read about and consider for the spring.
First and foremost, the 26th Annual Federalist Society Student Symposium will be held on Feb. 23 and 24 at Northwestern University School of Law. (Thankfully, this is during our Winter Break week off!) The focus of the panel discussions and debate is Law and Morality this year. Click above to visit the symposium website for more info. Ex-Pace FedSoc president Scott Aronowitz and I attended last years student symposium at Columbia on International Law and it was absolutely fabulous. Chicago is a little further than Harlem, but the national office will reimburse half of your airfare expenses! The cost for the symposium is only $5 for members and the benefits are astronomical. One of the debates planned will be between Kevin "Seamus" Hasson, Founder and Chairman of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty v. Nadine Strossen, President of the ACLU and law professor nearby at NY Law School. The conference is an amazing opportunity to meet FedSoc student members from all over the country. Over 1,500 attended last year at Columbia. For me it was the first time I heard an entire room of hundreds of voices gasping in horror at the words "living Constitution" and "penumbra." Visit the website link above for more information or to register, go check out Jetblue.com for flight info, and feel free to e-mail me at pacelawfederalist@hotmail.com with any questions.
Next, I wanted to let you know that I have DVDs of our 2 speeches (Judge Robert S. Smith of the NY Court of Appeals and Solicitor of Labor Howard Radzely) and the Gun Control debate. If anyone is interested in viewing these, please let me know. I'm pleased to announce that we made the news in November with our event with Judge Smith. Check out the tiny mention we got in this article in the New York Sun.
The Federalist Society national organization is offering up to three $5,000 scholarships for law students working in the field of foreign affairs or national security studies. This is their website John Jay Fellowship and the application deadline for consideration is January 15, 2007. Click the link on the title for more information.
Another very exciting opportunity available is the Institute for Justice is now accepting applications for summer 2007 law clerks. The Institute for Justice (IJ) is an amazing Libertarian public interest legal organization in Washington DC. The IJ represented Suzette Kelo and other homeowners in the now infamous Kelo v. City of New London. Applications will be accepted until the end of December and they will begin interviewing potential clerks in January. Interested students should send a cover letter, resume and writing sample to training@ij.org or Attn: Clerkship Coordinator, Institute for Justice 901 N. Glebe Road, Suite 900, Arlington, VA 22203. Feel free to contact Krissy Keys at the IJ or visit the Institute for Justice website for more information.
Another outstanding opportunity for us is the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, sponsored by the Alliance Defense Fund, which is a crucial cog in identifying and comprehensively training the next generation of Christian law students committed to bedrock constitutional principles, rigorous public debate, and the faithful application of the rule of law. This world class Internship provides airfare, lodging, most meals, plus a generous scholarship stipend of $6,300. And, at least ten placements have been secured internationally, including ones in London and Rome. Imagine: Six weeks in the UK or Italy with airfare and housing provided—together with a weekly stipend of approximately
$1000 for qualified applicants. Securing an offer for the Internship is competitive and the application process is rigorous, but the benefit outweighs the burden. You can learn more by consulting www.telladf.org and navigating to "The Blackstone Legal Fellowship." Applications can be submitted on-line, but must be received no later than January 22, 2007.
For anyone interested in clerking this summer in Florida, the Honorable Frank A. Shepherd of the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami, FL is seeking applications from qualified students who will have two years of law school experience as of the end of the fall semester to serve as unpaid legal interns in his chambers this summer. Summer interns work directly with him and his staff members doing legal research, assisting me in preparing for oral arguments, and performing other matters traditionally done by an appellate research assistant. The court is located in Miami, Florida, and handles all appellate matters arising in Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties ranging from civil (tort, contract, family, etc.) to criminal and some agency appeals. With rare exceptions, it is the court of last resort for this area. Interested persons may apply by mailing a cover letter, resume, transcript, and writing sample to:
The Honorable Frank A. Shepherd
Third District Court of Appeal
2001 S.W. 117 Avenue
Miami, Florida 33175-1716
The application deadline is Friday, February 2, 2007.
An historic debate between Justice Steven Breyer and Justice Antonin Scalia is availabe to view or listen to at the FedSoc website. This is an awesome discussion, I urge you all to check out. You can find it here at the FedSoc website.
And finally, those of us who are members of the national organization may have noticed that our Voting Rights Act debater, Dr. Abigail Thernstrom, wrote about the VRARA in the Fall/Winter issue of Engage which we received (or should have received) in the mail last month. Oh so many advantages to membership in the national organization. $5 Student Symposium plus a half travel scholarship, Engage magazine, webcasts of SCOTUS debates, scholarship and employment opportunities...the benefits never end! Still not a member? Sign up for $5 a year at FedSoc website.
(Note to Lauren, sign up today because you'll also receive a free one year membership as a lawyers chapter member!)
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