Ed Cottrell

  • No More 1L

    I am no longer a 1L. Thank goodness. I took my property exam, yesterday; I was a little terrified, at first, but think it’ll turn out just fine. This last quarter was insane. The first two quarters started kind of leisurely, each featured a sprint in the middle to get writing assignments done, then settled…

  • Word of the Day: Unbelievable

    That’s what I keep muttering under my breath, as I walk around in a post-criminal-law stupor. It’s not that I think I did badly (I think I did just fine, though I also don’t think that what I think is connected to what grade I will get), but that it was an absurd test and…

  • American Legal Theory Paper Now Online

    I have posted my American Legal Theory paper, The Case of Experience v. Efficiency: An Examination of the Influence of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., on Judge Richard Posner, to my writings page. Enjoy! Commentary is, of course, invited and welcome (why else would I put this stuff on the web?).

  • Exams

    1 down, 2 to go. I think Civil Procedure went really well, but I’ve also given up on trying to predict law school exam results.

  • Glitch fixing

    I just discovered that both the permalinks and the comments RSS feed were messed up. Somehow, some files didn’t transfer quite properly during the upgrade process, which is bizarre, since I double-checked them all. Go figure. If you see problems of any kind, please let me know. Thanks!