My Academic Stuff

Some of these are from history, some from law school. I'm sure they're all quite exciting.

Law-related

A Black Page in History: Sino-Western International Legal Relations in the Late Qing Dynasty. The granddaddy of all the papers I did in law school. This sucker is long. Not half bad, either. One of my few A's, but I think Prof. Edwards was just taking pity on me for my inability to read Chinese. I would like to thank Louisa for all her help with this paper.

Of Baseball, Collective Bargaining, Competitive Balance, and Evil Owners - A Call for Universal Free Agency. OK, so it's about as left-wing-out-there as it can get (argument: that there should no longer be even the slightest remnants of the reserve system), but it's also a right-wing argument, in the economic sense. Anyway, there's not much law there so much as an ideal situation that could happen if it were negotiated by the parties, and justifications for that situation being ideal. Of course, my Prof thought the Curt Flood case was a travesty and rubs elbows witht he owners daily, so I may not have been talking to the right audience. Gee, ya think? Once again, Louisa was extremely helpful with this paper.

History-related

The Good Life. This one falls more into the sociology department rather than history, but it deals with themes revolving folklore (used in a non-pejorative sense here), fables, and a different take on what it means to have a good life. As I remember it, the interviews were a requirement, not an option.

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