Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest Forum
- sach1282
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Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest
Hey TLS,
So, I have a note topic selected for journal, and I'm hunting for an adviser. I recently ran into a strange quandary. Possibly the best adviser for the topic I've selected is a faculty member who I found out, late at the end of 1L, was my second cousin. Is this too much of a conflict for me to ask him to be my note adviser?
Edit: FWIW, I think I'm probably having thanksgiving at his house.
So, I have a note topic selected for journal, and I'm hunting for an adviser. I recently ran into a strange quandary. Possibly the best adviser for the topic I've selected is a faculty member who I found out, late at the end of 1L, was my second cousin. Is this too much of a conflict for me to ask him to be my note adviser?
Edit: FWIW, I think I'm probably having thanksgiving at his house.
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Re: Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest
lmfaox100.
On the chance this is not a joke topic, you definitely should give 0 care to this and just work on the paper.
On the chance this is not a joke topic, you definitely should give 0 care to this and just work on the paper.
- sach1282
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Re: Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest
I'm not considering switching topic, the question is, do I ask my second cousin to be the adviser (since he's the best fit), or do I go to another professor?
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Re: Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest
Idk how it works at your school, but at mine this wouldn't have mattered at all.
- A. Nony Mouse
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Re: Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest
You can always just ask him if he thinks it's a conflict of interest.
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- kalvano
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Re: Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest
Please explain what about the note process would make it a conflict of interest. Does he decide if it gets published or not?
- sach1282
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Re: Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest
He grades it (or, rather, the independent study related to writing it).kalvano wrote:Please explain what about the note process would make it a conflict of interest. Does he decide if it gets published or not?
- Gamecubesupreme
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Re: Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest
That wouldn't be a conflict of interest.
Maybe a problem with bias, but not conflict of interest.
Maybe a problem with bias, but not conflict of interest.
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Re: Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest
Network connection brah
- kalvano
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Re: Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest
This is for law review? That's weird. Is it not simply a completion grade or pass / fail?sach1282 wrote:He grades it (or, rather, the independent study related to writing it).kalvano wrote:Please explain what about the note process would make it a conflict of interest. Does he decide if it gets published or not?
- cinephile
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Re: Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest
A second cousin that you never knew existed before last year is the functional equivalent of a complete stranger. So I wouldn't think there's a conflict. But let him decide.
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Re: Law Review Note Adviser Conflict of Interest
In every state I think you can marry a second cousin
I think you're good
I think you're good
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