Good Bye & Good Luck

By Katherine Mereand-Sinha

Last week our peer and classmate Drew Cohen was published in USA Today with an editorial about campaign spending and Citizens United. It is a good piece; I hope you read it.
As the outgoing Editor-In-Chief of this student-run …

A Profile of Current SBA President Nick Nikic

By Katherine Mereand-Sinha, Editor in Chief
On the last day of 1L orientation in 2009, he was still on the wait list of other law schools, hoping. Today, without hesitation Nick Nikic will say “I love this school.”
In twenty years he …

GW Law Students Expand Horizons at Indian Moot Court Competition

By Katherine Mereand-Sinha
Third year students Elizabeth Saxe and Puja Bhatia brought home the first and second place oralist (speaker) awards from the Eight Annual KK Luthra Memorial Moot Court Competition held in New Delhi, India this January. This is the …

On Privacy

By Katherine Mereand-Sinha 
A tall skinny man wearing a TSA uniform bore his eyes into mine. A crowd of 400 Washingtonians looked on in hushed silence.
I had never met him before. He did not even have a copy of my I.D. …

Justice Scalia Gives Keynote Speech at Law Review Symposium – Katherine Mereand

Opening this year’s Law Review Symposium last Thursday, Justice Anton Scalia addressed George Washington University Law students and faculty regarding “The Methodology of Originalism”. As Dean Berman aptly stated in his remarks, such an honor is one that students at …

Simple Things: Individual Lockers for All

By Katherine Mereand
 
First year students at GW Law should have their own lockers, and until they do they should be upset that they do not have them. It is a simple thing, and mundane enough that it is hard as …

He Did Not Hurt Me, But It Hurt by Katherine Mereand-Sinha

I was walking by myself on 20th between L & M Streets, NW, at about 8:50 p.m. last Wednesday.  A stranger in a wide-brimmed felt hat and a nice trench coat walked towards me.  He stepped close, too close, said …

What is a Newspaper? What is the News? by Katherine Mereand

In the coming months, I hope to answer this question more definitively. At present, I merely seek to ask it–of everyone. What is a newspaper? What is the role of an independent press?
Nota Bene has been an independent student newspaper …

GW Law Students Groups Invite You To Get Involved: Compiled by Katherine Mereand-Sinha

All George Washington University Law School student groups were invited to submit a profile to Nota Bene for publication. Groups that responded are profiled within. We encourage law students to get actively involved in student life on campus. It is …

Law Students Leave Junk for the SBA to Clean Up by Katherine Mereand-Sinha

Books and lunches. Umbrellas on the locks when it rains. Work out clothes, work clothes, and “emergency” ties or heels. Overnight bags. Toiletries. Necessities. The odd case of wine (believe me, it happens).
The humble lockers that the SBA rents to …

Rain Dance by Katherine Mereand-Sinha

In this economy GW Law students need to be optimistic, driven, and passionate about a few choice areas of the law. While the same could be said of anyone interested in a job in the field of law even during …