Gosh, Those Law Students Say the Darndest Things!
posted by Miriam Cherry
Grading this semester has been multiplied because of Hofstra’s large class size (118 students in my contracts section) and an extra class I was teaching at Touro Law Center. To console those of you who are also still grading, I offer the top funniest paper / exam lines during the time I’ve been teaching:
“Decisions are like snakes, they slip and slide next to morality and justice, changing with time.”
“The common law is like a baby. It grows and grows until someone comes along and stops it.”
“The most impotent doctrine in contracts is lack of consideration.”
And, finally, from a seminar paper that discussed women’s rights in law & literature:
“The feminist movement began climaxing in the mid-1800s, and continued building, with varying levels of excitement, until the 1960s.”
To quote humorist Dave Barry, “I am not making this up!” I realize that I may be encroaching on Reader’s Digest territory, but anyone else find some humorous exam lines?
May 30, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Posted in: Law School, Law School (Teaching)
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Responses (5)
John Armstrong - May 30, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Funny, and I’d always been told feminist climaxes began in the ’60s.
Seth R. - May 30, 2006 at 9:10 pm
A couple lines heard in my lawschool classes from professors:
“Now, if I paid your mother a nickle for sex…”
Crim. Law
“I have no moral base.”
Contracts
BQC - May 31, 2006 at 10:10 am
From a student regarding Loretto: “I guess that size really doesn’t matter.”
Anonymous Law Student - June 2, 2006 at 8:21 am
From my own exam (crim):
“there must be a ‘vicious will’ before we send someone ‘to the pokie.’”
“…fraud in the inducement is not criminal. You can claim to be a millionaire and offer to marry (or at least take on a weekend jaunt to your château in Nice) someone to induce them to sleep with you – and they’ve got no recourse in any court at all. (Best of luck on that promissory estoppel claim… ) “
Racer X - June 5, 2006 at 2:46 am
“The legal cause is a forseeability test. This requires knowledge, and D was full of knowledge.”
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