Nightmares of Legal Academics:
From Jacqueline Lipton, a law professor at Case, it's about the law review placement process:
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.
A few weeks ago, I had aI haven't had any law review dreams that I remember, 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.dreamnightmare 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 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.
The only difficulty is that I'm on sabbatical this semester and just got back from a week in Mexico. Maybe I need a vacation from my vacation?
Presumably they are caught or killed occasionally, and their weapons recovered. It seems reasonable to extrapolate from the sample of police-seized guns, unless you can think of some reason why criminals using U.S.-manufactured guns are more likely to be caught or killed.
Incidentally, it amazes me (as a librarian who then chose to become a law librarian) to no end that there still hasn't been a comprehensive study out there of how often law school faculty just go screw it with their discipline's fairly in-bred scholarly communication process, and focus on publishing in general academic journals.
Unfortunately, that turned out to be something close to the reality, but ...
Any apercus in the course of the computer-seizure dream? The answer to some question that had eluded you during wakefulness?
How often do people awaken disappointed to discover they were only dreaming as opposed to awakening relieved to discover they were only dreaming. I have had many, many more of the latter than the former, most often happy to realize that it was not almost the end of term with exams coming and me totally unprepared with no hope of passing.
Some of the worst nightmares I ever had were in law school. In a dream the night before my tax final, I flunked my exam and had to call my mom and explain I was no longer in law school, but was now working as a scab bus driver (there was a bus strike at the time). Mom was not amused. But that was nothing compared with the night before my property exam, when the Rule against Perpetuities literally crawled out from under my pillow and laughed at me while I was sleeping (looked a lot like a gremlin). I let out such a loud scream that my roommate came running to see who was murdering me...
And just for the record, no I don't practice either tax or estates law, for some strange reason...
Hah! It was lingering guilt from your position in Pearson v. Callahan.
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