Posted by Orin Kerr:
Nightmares of Legal Academics:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_03_22-2009_03_28.shtml#1238028282
From [1]Jacqueline Lipton, a law professor at [2]Case, it's about the
law review placement process:
A few weeks ago, I had a [DEL: dream :DEL] nightmare that I became
deathly ill in the middle of the submission season and was unable
to continue expediting my pieces. In the dream, I asked a colleague
(the one who dared encouraged me to write this) if he would take
over the expediting process for me. He kindly did so and placed
both pieces, but he couldn't remember where he had placed them and
couldn't find any record of his communications with the journals.
He knew the articles were going to be published in the fall, but
the doctors said I wouldn't make it that long. So I was left
knowing that I was going to die without ever finding out if I had
finally cracked the Top 10.
I haven't had a law review dream, but I did recently have a computer
search and seizure law dream. I was at my parents' house, and the
police knocked on the door and asked to come in. Someone let them in
(mom, maybe? I'm not sure), and then the police proceeded to pick up
and take away my parents' desktop computer. I asked them what they
were doing, and they told me that we had consented: Having agreed to
let them in, we had consented to let them take the computer away. I
responded that this was totally wrong, because the scope of consent
test is what a "typical reasonable person" would think the exchange
meant (Florida v. Jimeno), and it was ridiculous to think that consent
to enter a home was the same as consent to take away a computer. The
police shrugged and took the computer away anyway.
I think the meaning of the dream is that I really need to write that
article I have in mind on consent to search computers. Either that, or
I need to take a vacation.
References
1. http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2009/03/law-review-placement-dreams.html
2. http://law.case.edu/faculty/faculty_detail.asp?id=129
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