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That Perfect Gift for the New Grad: Learned Handmade Plates

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | May 13, 2008 - 14:32

If this isn’t law student creativity, I don’t know what is.

José Arcadio Klein, 3L at Harvard, has designed a line of “Learned Handmade Plates.” Klein describes the Legal Plate Project as “represent[ing] an album of the American Law School Experience. The plates are snapshots from the core of law as it is taught. Most law students have been expected to memorize most of the cases depicted here. They have been evaluated on the basis of how well they can reproduce the information these cases contain.”

And indeed, in the collection you can find plates for such classic cases as Ex Parte Quirin, Phillip Morris USA v. Williams, Brandenburg v. Ohio, or A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. and others. There are also commemorative plates for all current Supreme Court Justices [I like the Scalia plate the best].

The plates are on sale through Etsy, the Ebay of handmade goods, minus the bidding. And yes, there’s a graduation sale on the Supremes.

Tip: Et Seq.: The Harvard Law School Library Blog

Procrastinators, You Know Who You Are

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | May 13, 2008 - 09:32

Starting today and continuing for three days straight, the Web magazine Slate will run a special report on procrastination. In it, you can find out stuff like how to bank on investments in procrastination culture and pick up some summer reads on procrastination.

If you’ve been putting off some legal career-related tasks, a couple books to nudge you along –

How To Study for the Bar Exam in Three Days
(NOT that I’m encouraging you to try this – in fact, better to look at our Bar Exam Resource guide now)