Steve Mendelsohn, Law School Asshole

Related:

• KOL293 | Faith and Free Will, with Steve Mendelsohn
  • Shallow Draughts: Faith in the Absence of Free Will (2017; pdf) and Sequitur (2020; pdf)
• Mendelsohn, Kosher Vestiges
• Steve Mendelsohn: The God of Death and the Death of God
• Patent Lawyer Mostly Agrees With Me
• KOL471 | “What Is Property? And What Is Not? — Part 1,” Capitalism & Morality (Vancouver) (see in particular text at note 3

I worked with patent lawyer Steve Mendelsohn when I practiced law in the mid-1990s at Schnader Harrison in Philadelphia. He was a witty writer; one of his funnier pieces is this one, “Confessions of a Law School Asshole,” published when he was a law student at U. Penn in The Penn Law Forum (Sept. 26, 1990). I love his description of “asshole bingo,” and his question in class, “What’s a magistrate?”