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2008 Election Still Wide OpenClinton Leads at SW
January 2008 While California’s Presidential Primary is not until Feb. 5, many SW students already have a candidate in mind. In December 2007, The Commentator asked SW students whom they would vote for if the Presidential primary elections were held that day.…
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California Bar Exam Tests Students and Southwestern Law School
January 2008 One norm in the law student community is progressing to your final year of school and becoming pre-occupied with the impending doom known as the California Bar Examination. Another norm is looking at the most recent Bar passage rates and wondering if you’ll be in the passing percentage.…
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FeaturedThe Top 5 Laws of 2008January 2008 While many of us were watching Dick Clark on New Year’s Eve, few of us probably took the time to note all of the new laws that would take effect once the ball dropped. The California Legislature passed 964 bills last year, 750 of which were signed into law.A Symposium For ChangeMarch 2008 On January 25th, students, faculty, and many distinguished guests gathered in the Bullocks Wilshire building to take part in a symposium entitled “Abandoning the Inquisitor: Latin America’s Criminal Procedure Revolution.” The symposium was organized by SW’s Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas (Law Journal), and focused on the changing criminal procedure process in Latin America.Watch: The Candidate MoviesJanuary 2008 With the primaries fast approaching and in keeping with the whole election theme, I’m going to compare the candidates t movies that, in my mind, represent who they are.Barack Obama:Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Why? It’s about a political idealist who doesn’t back away from his beliefs when confronted with corruption. |