Tag: speaking

Fandom and the art of speaking well

Written on August 13, 2014.

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing the esteemed lawyer, legal thinker and professor, Dean Erwin Chimerinsky, speaks at the monthly Desert Bar Association luncheon. I’ve been a fan of Dean Chimerinsky since I used his treatise, Constitutional Law: Principle and Policies, for the second semester of Constitutional Law. It was the best student aid I ever used. Given my fandom, I was excited to hear the Dean ( at University of California, Irvine law school) review the US Supreme Court...

Law Day 2014 at the RCLL

Written on May 5, 2014.

If you didn’t know, Thursday, May 1, 2014 was Law Day at the Riverside County Law Library. As part of the festivities, Judge Jackson Lucky was our keynote speaker. Judge Lucky’s presentation on voting rights and the importance of exercising your right to vote was both informative and very interesting. He mentioned that often times, especially for young people, that the sentiment that every vote counts seems quite far fetched. Some questions that Judge Lucky fleshed out were how can...