Are you a student at the BYU Law School? If so, you’ll be well aware of the excitement that is SBA elections!

As such, you should vote for me in the elections that are going on right now! I’m running for VP of Activities. Check out my official election website here, and then go vote! Spread the word to all your friends! Voting ends Thursday 3/17 at midnight!
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One of the great things about law school, at least at BYU, is the vast number of highly intellectual, thought provoking guest speakers and events that come to visit the law school. I’d be tempted to say that most of the learning that I’ve experienced in law school has come as I’ve participated regularly in these events, which have challenged my views, invited introspection, and provided opportunities to reflect on what is important to me and what I think should be important in society. I really have changed since I started law school, and that is in no small part due to the challenging and thought provoking experiences that I have almost every day.

Today Professor Patrick Garry of the University of South Dakota Law School spoke at the law school on the “Establishment Clause” of the Constitution. Of course, that is the part of the Constitution that provides for the separation of church and state. It reads: Read the rest of this entry »

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Vote for me in the dailymile beard contest! I’m in the gray Brigham Young shirt with headphones on my neck.

Vote here! Voting ends March 3, 2011.

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On my recent trip to Chicago, I read another of Malcolm Gladwell‘s books, Blink. Blink‘s tale about the “power of thinking without thinking” was, like all Gladwell’s other books that I’ve read, a fascinating read.

Gladwell himself described the book as “an intellectual adventure story…There is a lot of psychology in it. In fact, the core of the book is research from a very new and quite extraordinary field in psychology that hasn’t really been written about yet for a general audience. But those ideas are illustrated using stories from every corner of society.” Read the rest of this entry »

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The other day was the JRCLS Annual Fireside. This year it was in the Conference Center in SLC, so I went up with Annette and some friends from the law school. Elder Christofferson gave a great address. It was definitely for an audience of lawyers; he make jokes referencing the Uniform Commercial Code, the tax code, and the like. He knows his audience.

His talk was about “Law and Becoming.” Here are some of his thoughts that were meaningful to me.
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In honor of the day, I figured I’d share some thought’s I’ve come across as of late that I liked.

I recently started reading the “world’s greatest fantasy classic”, The Once and Future King, which of course tells the story of King Arthur. As such, I decided to watch Disney’s Sword in the Stone. It’s a pretty loose adaptation, but there are some similarities, which was pretty fun (et the scene where Art turns into a fish). At any rate, in one scene of the movie, Arthur and Merlyn turn into squirrels, and are chased around by a few female sciuridae. After turning back into humans (and leaving a couple of broken hearts), Arthur and Merlyn have an exchange that I liked.
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