It feels like a long time since I have posted, and I guess that is a good thing. I think it means I have been focusing harder on my work. We are getting into some interesting ideas right now. In civ. pro. we are working through the development of personal jurisdiction reading, what I here, are classic cases: International Shoe, World-Wide Volkswagen, McGee. I don't find it particularyly challenging, but that might also be because my current memo in legal writing is on an issue of personal jurisdiction in the internet context, based on the Zippo sliding scale for determining whether jurisdiction can be based on a defendant's website. I have been seeped in the analysis of "minimum contacts" and "fair play and substantial justice" for weeks, so I am getting more out of the cases we read in class, because I am not coming at them cold.
In Contracts we are starting to learn a series of rules for the rest of the semester, beginning with the Parol Evidence Rule. From what I understand, the basics of the rule are that when a court faces a written contract with unambiguous terms, no oral testimony will be allowed to contradict the written terms. As our contract professor said, it is not about evidence but rather interpretation, it is not parol (oral, unwritten) because it is about the intepretation of written text, and it has so many exceptions it is hardly a rule.
In a final note, I finally got my resume together and am going to meet with career services tomorrow. Got to pay the bills this summer! Look for a long post this weekend. Next week is spring break, and I will have time to catch up.
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