So am I?
Via Peter Black’s Freedom to Differ blog, I came across this video from the Society for Geek Advancement:
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Category: General
Criminal lawyers on justice and injustice
- Injustice
by Giotto
via Wikipedia
I have heard it said that when you get two lawyers in a room, you get at least three opinions. This is, unfortunately, usually true. It is therefore all the more impressive when you can get 133 of them to agree on something. Here’s a letter in today’s Irish Times on the impact of the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill, 2009, which is to be subject to a legislative guillotine before the Dáil rises next week:
…Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill
Madam, – We the undersigned are lawyers whose practices include the area of criminal law. Many of us both prosecute and defend. We see at first hand the effect of crime, particularly violent crime on individuals and communities in our society and we also have a close up view of the criminal justice system with its strengths and its frailties.
We are extremely concerned then about the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009 which, it appears, is likely to become law this week. It has been introduced without any research to support its desirability and without canvassing expert opinion or inviting contribution from interested parties on the issues. It appears now that it will be passed without proper debate in the Dáil because such debate has been guillotined by the Government.
Sympathy for the devil?
No, it’s not about a Rolling Stones song, or a Jean-Luc Goddard movie, but instead, in another sign of the times, it’s a cartoon about lawyers from the wonderful Non Sequitur cartoon strip:
The box on the top left corner says: Why unemployed lawyers have trouble getting sympathy.
The unemployed lawyer’s placard says: Will bill you for my time watching you walk by
Click on the image or here for the larger, more legible, original.…
Mobile phones in class
By way of update to my recent post about laptops in class, here’s Torill Mortensen thinking with her fingers about recent research on the consequences of mobile phones going off in class:
Why we don’t like cell-phones in class
… Apart from being annoying, distracting and rude, ringing cellphones makes students forget what they learned before and during the ringing of the phone. If the ring tone is a popular, well-known piece of music, this is even worse.
For my classes, I have this rule which has these consequences; in my view, those who visit such consequences upon offending and offensive mobile phones are not criminals but heroes!
Torill concludes with excellent advice for students in class:
So: That mute button? Use it!
Hear hear!…
Laptop fever
Ireland’s leading celebrity academic blogger discusses a the theme of Laptops in class:
Laptop fever
… the laptop is now a common sight in the lecture theatre or classroom, with an increasing number of students bringing them along and using them visibly. … Generally I am a supporter of the use of technology where it assists, and I see no reason why this should not apply to the laptop. …
Anyway, I am now bringing my own laptop along to meetings. It’s useful, and great when things get boring.
Ah, boring meetings. That explains a lot. It must be when he gets the time to write his blog posts :-)…
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