Here is a list of law schools who are willing to host visiting students from Tulane and Loyola law schools. At this point, NDLS is not on the list. (Hat tip: Notre Dame 1L Chai Ri Park.)
P.S. Somebody raised the issue of what caliber of schools were willing to suddenly open their doors to students from Tulane (ranked #41 on the U.S. News list) and Loyola (a Tier 3 school). I mean no offense to students of those schools, and besides, we all know the U.S. News rankings are meaningless anyway :), but I just wanted to address this question. There are five schools ranked as high or higher than Notre Dame who are on the list of schools accepting “refugee” students: Stanford (#3), Duke (#11), University of Texas (#15), Washington & Lee (#22), and Washington University in St. Louis (#24). Also, the list includes schools in places as far away from New Orleans as Seattle and Boston. Just saying.
I think the school should just keep giving classes. They could set up shop in some office building or high school (at night). You don’t need a fancy place to learn. A school is a log with a teacher on one end and a student on the other (Aristotle). Seriously, with some reasonable adapt and overcome, they could keep classes going at another location.
chill - With all due respect, you *must* be kidding.
Who’s going to teach the classes? The homeless faculty members? And I assume that the homeless students will attend, spending much effort on academics and not things like food, shelter, and survival… uh huh.
Assuming the faculty and students are in shelters (which ones? the ones in Texas, or the ones in Tennessee?), how are we going to ferry people back and forth to this non-fancy place?
Ugh, Barry. The Louisiana Civil Code is actually not properly referred to as “Napoleonic;” only the 1808 French Civil Code, the oldest in the world, is “la Code Napoleon.” Don’t perpetuate the common-law states’ misperceptions: next thing you’ll be telling is that people in Louisiana are guilty until proven innocent. ;-) As with all mixed jurisdictions, its public law, including criminal law, is essentially common law, derived from England; only its private law is civil law, from Rome via France and Spain.
I say this as a Tulane Law alum whose exposure to the civil law was relatively limited (to two comparative law classes directed at common-law students): we don’t ALL primarily study that, you know. I mean, I know I’d be at a great disadvantage if I ever tried to pass the Louisiana Bar.
Daniel J. Nugent (a Junior studying Agricultural Accountancy at University of Illinois at Urbana) has started a blog that is just a listing of schools offering to help displaced students. Please see here: http://o4sabk.blogspot.com
Ugh yourself, David J. You’ve scored a new high for pedantry.
Well speaking as a native New Orleanian, I suggest you grow a sense of humor. It was a joke. After studying at Tulane I would have thought that you might have picked up that the locals often refer to Louisiana civil code as the Napoleonic Code. Your own comment that you wouldn’t do well at passing the Louisiana code should have clued you in to the joke.
How many common-law lawyers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? 2. One to screw in the light bulb and the other to read the directions.
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September 1st, 2005 at 10:52:58 pm
I think the school should just keep giving classes. They could set up shop in some office building or high school (at night). You don’t need a fancy place to learn. A school is a log with a teacher on one end and a student on the other (Aristotle). Seriously, with some reasonable adapt and overcome, they could keep classes going at another location.
September 1st, 2005 at 11:13:53 pm
chill - With all due respect, you *must* be kidding.
Who’s going to teach the classes? The homeless faculty members? And I assume that the homeless students will attend, spending much effort on academics and not things like food, shelter, and survival… uh huh.
Assuming the faculty and students are in shelters (which ones? the ones in Texas, or the ones in Tennessee?), how are we going to ferry people back and forth to this non-fancy place?
Na, I don’t think so.
September 1st, 2005 at 11:24:01 pm
Yeah, but how good is Stanford at teaching the Napoleonic Code?
September 1st, 2005 at 11:40:00 pm
Ugh, Barry. The Louisiana Civil Code is actually not properly referred to as “Napoleonic;” only the 1808 French Civil Code, the oldest in the world, is “la Code Napoleon.” Don’t perpetuate the common-law states’ misperceptions: next thing you’ll be telling is that people in Louisiana are guilty until proven innocent. ;-) As with all mixed jurisdictions, its public law, including criminal law, is essentially common law, derived from England; only its private law is civil law, from Rome via France and Spain.
I say this as a Tulane Law alum whose exposure to the civil law was relatively limited (to two comparative law classes directed at common-law students): we don’t ALL primarily study that, you know. I mean, I know I’d be at a great disadvantage if I ever tried to pass the Louisiana Bar.
September 1st, 2005 at 11:55:25 pm
If they’re going to relocate anyway…then have them relocate to BFE and keep taking classes. Those who chose to. Use your head.
September 2nd, 2005 at 12:25:52 am
Daniel J. Nugent (a Junior studying Agricultural Accountancy at University of Illinois at Urbana) has started a blog that is just a listing of schools offering to help displaced students. Please see here: http://o4sabk.blogspot.com
September 2nd, 2005 at 6:09:29 pm
Ugh yourself, David J. You’ve scored a new high for pedantry.
Well speaking as a native New Orleanian, I suggest you grow a sense of humor. It was a joke. After studying at Tulane I would have thought that you might have picked up that the locals often refer to Louisiana civil code as the Napoleonic Code. Your own comment that you wouldn’t do well at passing the Louisiana code should have clued you in to the joke.
How many common-law lawyers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? 2. One to screw in the light bulb and the other to read the directions.