Hello. Welcome to my website. It started while I was in Europe for a semester, and I've kept it up since then. I'm now at the University of Chicago Law School, living in Hyde Park, and the story continues. If you want to say hi or visit me, email cfloyd at uchicago dot edu.
"Life is nothing if not the sum of your anecdotes." -Scotty The Body, on storytelling "But it ain't that bad, man. Just figure out the system before the system figures out you." -T. Matthew Smith, on the 1L year "The beer just doesn't taste as good when you're not drinking it with your buddies." -Anon., on being away from good friends "Somebody has to pay the rent around here. Why the hell not us?" -Cotton, on studying for exams
10/16/2003
Today we had a seminar on ethics and professionalism. I wanted to skip it, but that wouldn't have been very ethical or professional.
Some of the dilemmas posed in our small group discussions were very interesting. I think I'll share. Feel free to comment, and I'll post my own responses. I especially expect responses from the pre-law and law students who watch the site (Body, Deano, Douglas, T. Matt, RaNas, Jonesy, Lopez, etc.), but encourage all to throw in their $0.02.
Problem #1 Late one evening while you are drinking a cup of coffee at Caribou you overhear Lance and Sybil, two of your classmates, talking about class. You learn that Lance helped Sybil with the answeres to a take-home examination contrary to the professor's instructions. You also learn from that conversation that Sybil has been having trouble in school because she is an habitual user of marijuana, and she is financing her education in part by selling marijuana. No one else has heard this conversation.
SYNOPSIS: A law student overhears a conversation about classmates cheating on an examination and about one who is using and selling marijuana.
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS: 1. Do you have a duty to report the cheating? Would you report it ?
2. Would it matter to you if the students involved were in their last semester of law school?
3. What, if anything, would you do about Sybil's drug use and sales? What would you do if you were ahead of her in law school and, after you were admitted to the bar, you learned that she had applied to become a member?
4. What if, instead of marijuana, Sybil was using and selling methamphetamine? Cocaine?
10/16/2003 01:30:00 PM
