Mayhem

Did you know that at common law, mayhem was the crime of dismembering or disabling a body part?

And did I mention I started studying for the bar? I'm not going to have lots of time to devote to studying this summer, since I'll be working, so I'm starting early. My goal is to get through most of the Conviser Mini-Review book by the end of the month, at least a first pass to get all the concepts back in my head. Bar/Bri starts at the beginning of June.

You may have guessed that at the moment, I'm reviewing criminal law. It has so little to do with my current practice that it's kind of fun. It reminds me of 1L year, when you learn all sorts of things that you can't believe you never knew.

Tangent: it blows my mind when people claim they didn't learn anything in law school. Does it become internalized so quickly that you forget it ever took you an hour to read a five-page opinion? Are you forgetting about the time in your life when the only way you knew whether something was legal was to Google "will i get arrested if i dance naked on the roof what if i am drunk then is it ok"? By the end of the first year, when someone asks you a legal question, you probably don't know the answer. But you know where to look, and you can understand what you find. That's totally worth the price of admission.

Anyway, look forward to more exciting law tidbits in the months to come.