Wednesday, March 07, 2007

in the ongoing series...

you know you've been too long at YLS when...

#3: you insert a footnote into the paper you're writing that says "insert generic rule of lenity citation here". and this represents one of your more complete, thought-out footnotes. and the subject of the paper has nothing whatsoever to do with criminal law.

2 Comments:

Blogger interestingthings said...

... when you know off-hand the cite b/c you just used it in a comparably unrelated paper: Liparota v. United States and United States v. Bass.

10:40 AM  
Blogger MCR said...

yes. that would also count as 'being at YLS too long when'. but it counts as a lot of other things as well. ;)

10:49 AM  

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