Top Documentary Films features an impressive list of full length documentaries available on-line free of charge. What a great way to extend the classroom by assigning movies for students to watch outside of class! The list of movies available is quite extensive and diverse. I pulled out a few relevant examples:
Big Brother, Big Business
trailer:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
trailer:
WalMart: the High Cost of Low Price
trailer:
Consuming Kids
trailer:
Capitalism: a Love Story
trailer:
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
The End of Civility...or the End of Civilization?
Below is an ad for the reality TV show, Celebrity Apprentice. Pardon me for being cynical, but I don't think that the fact that the show will raise money for charity is enough to redeem the cultural damage this show inflicts. How can we teach ethics, when the "cheat to win" culture is so famously celebrated . . . and even justified as "doing good?" Do our student dismiss us as out-of-touch sentimentalists when we promote ethical behavior? What about all the multi-millions of TV viewers who are never even exposed to the suggestion of ethical conduct in business? Are ethics even relevant, anymore?
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Law Music Video: Illegal Search
This week's installment in the "Law Music Videos" series is Illegal Search by LL Cool J. Law music videos played before your class starts will positively contribute to learning.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Corporations Are Persons Now
Tell us how you really feel ladies. Don't hold back, now! See also the The Story of Citizens United.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Law Students Sing Their Brutally Honest Views
So you want to go to law school . . . ? Or should you just buy a puppy?
See, also, Law School Musical and Law School Worryin' Blues.
Lawyers:
Puppies:
See, also, Law School Musical and Law School Worryin' Blues.
Lawyers:
Puppies:
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
City Tells Police Office CPR Injury Not Job Related
The Hartford Courant reports (1/19/12) what can only be characterized as a bizarre legal opinion from the New Britain, Connecticut city attorney. My apologies to the Courant for quoting so extensively from the article, but unfortunately, the Courant does not allow access to its archive for long. According to the article:
On Nov. 11, [New Britain police officer Frank] Barbagiovanni was dispatched to a house where a 10-year-boy had stopped breathing. As soon as he got out of his patrol car, the mother ran to him with the unconscious boy, and Barbagiovanni began CPR until paramedics arrived and took over. The boy later died at the Hospital of Central Connecticut.
Because the boy vomited on the officer's face and in his open mouth during CPR, supervisors directed Barbagiovanni to file a report documenting that he had potentially been exposed to communicable diseases.
City attorneys later notified him that the incident was not "causally related to a work-related condition" – and that they would contest workers compensation if he applied for it.
Officer Barbagiovanni, understandably upset, commented, "I thought the city would want me to try and save a life, they trained me in the skills to do so... The city on one hand cannot demand and acknowledge we expose ourselves to threats of injury and then state that we do not have to."
The city attorney's inexplicable letter and opinion is bad enough, but a spokesman for the New Britain mayor managed to compound the embarrassment. In a follow up story (1/20/12) reporting that the mayor called Barbagiovanni to his office to apologize to him, the Courant reports:
The section of the city's attorney's letter was merely "boilerplate," language common in any worker's compensation correspondence, said Phil Sherwood, an aide to [the mayor].
"Any reasonable person would understand that the attorney wasn't saying CPR isn't part of a police officer's duties," Sherwood said, who said the mayor applauds Barbagiovanni's work at the emergency call.
So, if you read the two articles together, it is clear that the policy of the City of New Britain is to deny and challenge ALL workers' compensation claims, regardless of reason, justice, the law and, of course, the facts that should have been understood by "any reasonable person." Isn't this a plot line right out of a Grisham novel (The Rainmaker)?
Truth is stranger than fiction.
On Nov. 11, [New Britain police officer Frank] Barbagiovanni was dispatched to a house where a 10-year-boy had stopped breathing. As soon as he got out of his patrol car, the mother ran to him with the unconscious boy, and Barbagiovanni began CPR until paramedics arrived and took over. The boy later died at the Hospital of Central Connecticut.
Because the boy vomited on the officer's face and in his open mouth during CPR, supervisors directed Barbagiovanni to file a report documenting that he had potentially been exposed to communicable diseases.
City attorneys later notified him that the incident was not "causally related to a work-related condition" – and that they would contest workers compensation if he applied for it.
Officer Barbagiovanni, understandably upset, commented, "I thought the city would want me to try and save a life, they trained me in the skills to do so... The city on one hand cannot demand and acknowledge we expose ourselves to threats of injury and then state that we do not have to."
The city attorney's inexplicable letter and opinion is bad enough, but a spokesman for the New Britain mayor managed to compound the embarrassment. In a follow up story (1/20/12) reporting that the mayor called Barbagiovanni to his office to apologize to him, the Courant reports:
The section of the city's attorney's letter was merely "boilerplate," language common in any worker's compensation correspondence, said Phil Sherwood, an aide to [the mayor].
"Any reasonable person would understand that the attorney wasn't saying CPR isn't part of a police officer's duties," Sherwood said, who said the mayor applauds Barbagiovanni's work at the emergency call.
So, if you read the two articles together, it is clear that the policy of the City of New Britain is to deny and challenge ALL workers' compensation claims, regardless of reason, justice, the law and, of course, the facts that should have been understood by "any reasonable person." Isn't this a plot line right out of a Grisham novel (The Rainmaker)?
Truth is stranger than fiction.
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