On Fri, 16 Apr 1993, Jim Milles wrote, in reply to Mary Whisner's inquiry
about lawsch-l:
> Mary,
>
> I've subscribed to lawsch-l off and on, but it seems pretty dead. The
> few postings I ever saw tended to be undergrads asking what law
> school they should apply to.
I have been reading lawsch-l lately, and it has been quite lively this
week.
A posting forwarded from another list (from a Dutch citizen who claimed
his boat had been confiscated by the U.S. Govt. b/c he used it to take
humanitarian aid to Cuba) and the subsequent thread of responses, provoked
some wonderful discussion in my Intro to Law class.
I also printed off some of the discussion from the past week among law
review editors on the topic of electronic publication of their journals
and passed it along to our review, which brought a flood of applications
for an Internet ID from our incoming board of editors.
I have noticed that the quality of the discussions vary over time, and the
folks looking for a leg up on their way into law school do pop up with
fair regularity.
I don't participate in the discussions, leaving that to the students,
though I will sometimes forward something of particular interest to
appropriate faculty members, such as the enthusiastic recommendation for
the Norwegian author's book on Crime Control that was posted today.
I wouldn't recommend this list without reservation, but I have found it to
have some value, though when I am particularly pressed for time its
postings are likely to be among the ones I skip - something one wouldn't
THINK of doing with lawlib, of course! :-)
Gary Gott
Law Librarian & Assoc. Prof. of Law
Thormodsgard Law Library
University of North Dakota
gott@badlands.nodak.edu
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