In Fall 2007, I took a graduate philosophy class at UCLA (Philosophy 232), which was basically a class on cosmology, dressed up as philosophy of science. Like the other five people in the seminar, I took an “incomplete” in the course, opting to submit my final paper (the only basis for grading in the class) [...]
Today in my Law & Economics class, we discussed campaign contribution limits–i.e., legal bars on how much one can contribute to a politician’s campaign.
For my patent law seminar this semester, I got to write a paper about a topic that I’ve always had a particular interest in–especially since my view on it diverged from Ayn Rand’s. The issue is independent invention in patent–when one person patents an invention, and then another person independently invents the same thing. Under [...]
Yesterday, in my Law & Economics class, we discussed John Rawls, and his “A Theory of Justice”. It’s a fortuitous coincidence that we discussed Rawls in the Week 10 LOGIC General Meeting just last week. I hasten to preface this post with the warning that as of 2009-03-18, this is my first draft, and the [...]
Last Thursday, in my Law & Economics class, my professor was comparing the “goals” of various political systems, soliciting suggestions from the class. When she got to “What is the goal of communism?”, I piped up without missing a beat (and without being called on): “Murder.” There were a few “oooh”s from the back of [...]