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CDC x Ex Curia Interview

CDC x Ex Curia Interview

Jaiba: What is the CDC'S role at the school? Alex: Yeah, so, our mandate is to help law students feel supported. And help them carve their own career path. And so we hope to help students discover what they're interested in and what they'd like to do, set their goals and help them achieve them. We have a lot of different types of tools and services that we offer students in order to help them achieve those goals. Students are welcome to use our services, such as one-on-one appointment bookings and attending programming. Some of them may be panels for some kind of career exploration, or we have other resources and tools for preparing for ...

‘The 3L Diaries’: Our Biggest Regrets in Law School

Law school is a daunting place. Attended by those bright and diligent few who managed to get accepted, it can inculcate a constant feeling of competition ...

Reflections on the Law School Pyramid

What do Egypt and law school have in common? Pyramids. But ours is made of casebooks ...

‘This Place Is a Pit’: The Brutalist Charm of Fauteux Hall

The stark, monolithic sarcophagus we call our law school—where dreams of changing the world one case at a time are buried in six-hundred-page Supreme Court readings and Red Bull-fuelled midnight grinds at the Brian Dickson Library ...

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A Moot Reflection by Alexandra Son

It is a well-known fact that lawyers love to win.1 So it’s only natural that law students—whether by nature or through the intense nurture of law school—also love to win. For the law student, nothing triggers the release of dopamine more than the “A” printed on the transcript, the email that starts with “Congratulations”, and the call that begins with “We’d love to offer you…”. After all, that’s what law school is all about. Winners = best lawyers = happy life. ...