Comradia
I'm a Punjabi-Canadian, agnostic Sikh, feminist, left-leaning, aspiring vegan, law student. My interests include: food, Bollywood, Desiness, politics, literature, and stationery. Currently, I'm going through a lot of self-exploration & embracing a fluid/flexible moral code.
- Comrade Jas
My separate site for reblogging: http://comradereblog.tumblr.com/
- Comrade Jas
My separate site for reblogging: http://comradereblog.tumblr.com/
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Posts I Like
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Me: I love puns.
Chris: That’s turtley stupid.
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store guy: /extensively stares at boobsme: yes, hello, i'm here because my mobile's not working. also if you could please stop looking at my breasts?store guy: oh my god i wasn't looking at your breasts! - i mean, that, too, but... /slowly unbuttons shirt... ...
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Baby! (Taken with instagram)
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The TARDIS
[William M.] Kunstler believed that the primary role of a progressive lawyer was to protect the rights of those in society who were trying to cause a paradigm shift in thinking. That is, he did not see the lawyer as the primary engine for social change; rather, it was the social activist, the person who sought to educate, persuade, and change fundamental thinking about particular issues. Such activists would invariably be vulnerable to attack by the political and legal system that was not amenable to the change, and it was the job of the attorney to use every tool available to her to protect that activist. Kunstler’s advice fit in with our general view that the first task of the animal-rights movement was to educate society about why such a movement was necessary in the first place and to shift the paradigm away from the commodity status of nonhumans.
This is an excellent take on the role of the lawyer in social change, specifically in the context of animal rights but is aplicable more broadly. From “Animals as Persons” by Gary Francione (p. 122)
American Strata
Happy May Day!
This is unfortunately too accurate #HappyMayDay
(via alpinerecreation)
There is something joyous about seeing somebody’s brain working.
DG. Probably because we too often see the opposite. (via inverbisnonverba)
- Student: So if you read the Criminal Code, those sections will still be in there?
- Crim prof: Yes, the government usually doesn't go back to change the law after the courts have struck it down.
- Student: Doesn't that violate the principle of people knowing the law?
- Crim prof: Sure.
- EB: Huh. "Provide specific suggestions for what the professor could have done in this course to help you learn more effectively." ...He could retire.
- JB: (says sthg I missed)
- EB: He doesn't have to die, he just has to not teach anymore.
- JB: (frustrated by Charter jurisprudence) I guess we’ll just all have to become judges. Either that, or violent revolution.
- HL: (on her way out the door) Let me know if you do that. (sticks head back in) The violent revolution, I mean.
- And that’s why she’s our favourite. (HL = constitutional law prof)
Law school legitimates all my quirky habits.
JB. MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. See also: validates, embraces, makes me feel loved despite/for (via inverbisnonverba)
I didn’t know what yuppies meant, I had to look it up. I thought it meant people who own puppies.
JB (via inverbisnonverba)
…And now I’ve embraced the idea of becoming a yuppie.
testatrix
is a great word. Enter an estate-holding femme fatale cracking her whip-smart knowledge of property law to secure titular & usufructory domination of her successors from beyond the grave. Hot. (via inverbisnonverba)
- Me: Every law school week is like three weeks’ worth of normal life crammed in.
- JB: That means the next three years will actually be nine law school years.