Jaya at CoOp beat me to the post, but this been making the Civ Pro rounds all day. It’s one of the best (in terms of cleverness and quality) of these that I’ve seen.
Survey question: Is this too risque to put up on a course blog?
Posted by Howard Wasserman on April 18, 2012 at 10:32 PM
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Well, sex sold this video (it won the contest), and it may sell civil procedure, but I probably would not post it!
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Posted by: Johan | Apr 23, 2012 6:50:48 PM
I’ve been of two minds about this. This first is that — like Dr. Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia and Titanic — it is little more than sexual innuendo and glossy production values. The second is, oh those production values.
(Actually, on third thought, it’s just like a brief or article that says very little, but does so in a way that just sings. And I admire the craftsmanship.)
Also, the blonde. If only I was a decade younger.
Posted by: Joe (not that one) | Apr 20, 2012 11:25:04 PM
It’s odd that the critique about a civil procedure song is that its lyrics lack substance.
I liked it quite a bit, and I think they nailed it.
Posted by: Michael Teter | Apr 20, 2012 3:36:17 PM
Ditto anonymous. As a professor.
Posted by: BAA | Apr 20, 2012 2:23:47 PM
For what little it may be worth: not as a professor but as a lawyer (and a non-prudish one, at that), I agree with Anonymous on all points.
Posted by: Sam | Apr 20, 2012 1:56:46 PM
The singing is good. But there’s actually minimal cleverness because the lyrics bear no relation to anything of substance. Just dirty innuendos and rhymes.
And it isn’t in the universe of a close call whether it’s appropriate to post for students.
Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 20, 2012 11:28:57 AM
I loved it too, but I wouldn’t post it either.
Posted by: David Levine | Apr 19, 2012 11:46:06 PM
As a colleague of Joe Glannon, I think it’s rich, but no it’s not appropriate, or at least it’s not worth the risk of offending somebody’s sensibility. But I do not close my office door if a student is in my office.
Posted by: Jeff Lipshaw | Apr 19, 2012 2:25:03 PM