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15
May

Graduation again

Leave a reply! » | Posted by oshane

This Saturday, I graduate with an LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Admiralty from Tulane University Law School. I have spent a year focusing on maritime commerce and admiralty law and I have a much more acute sense about how to represent seafaring clients and proctor their claims.

I plan to take on maritime clientele as a substantial part of my practice. That said, even if I were never to practice in admiralty, it would have been worthwhile. I agree with the following passage:

No other course in law school implicates so many substantive areas of the law: contracts, torts, civil procedure, criminal law, legal history, commercial law, environmental law, both public and private international law, administrative law and constitutional law. Even if a student never sees a maritime case after graduation, the course on Admiralty Law will provide a capstone to her legal education, demonstrating how the various pieces of the law fit together as a harmonious whole. No other course in the law school curriculum is [sic] casts so broad a net and is capable of providing a picture of the richness of the law as it is confronted by lawyers and judges in the front lines of practice.

Thomas J. Schoenbaum, 1 Admiralty and Maritime Law: Practitioner Treatise Series iv (5th ed. 2011) (emphasis added).

It was a rich and interesting year at Tulane Law.

Here is my graduation announcement.

13
February

It turns out that my suppositions about why Fox News canceled Freedom Watch were wrong. Judge Napolitano made this statement on Facebook today to his followers (it’s the second or third in a string of increasingly frustrated missives to his ardent viewership):

Dear Friends–

Many of you are not happy with the cancellation of FreedomWatch, and you have sent emails to my Fox colleagues expressing that unhappiness. In television, shows are cancelled all the time. Two of my former shows have been cancelled, and after each cancellation, Fox has rewarded me with more and better work. This cancellation–along with others that accompanied it–was the result of a business judgment here, and is completely unrelated to the FreedomWatch message. It would make a world of a difference for all of us, if you would KINDLY STOP SENDING EMAILS TO FOX.

I am well. Your values are strong. I will continue to articulate those values here at Fox. But the emails many of you are sending are unfairly interfering with my work and that of my colleagues here. The emails even violate our values because they interfere with the use of private property. I have accepted the cancellation decision with good cheer and a sense of gearing up for the future. You should as well.

As a favor to me, and as I have asked this past weekend, PLEASE STOP SENDING EMAILS TO MY COLLEAGUES AT FOX ABOUT THE CANCELLATION OF FreedomWatch; and please stop NOW.

All the best, apn.

Well it turns out he continues to have a platform for his work on Fox News. I do bet he wishes he could issue an injunction right about now!