{"id":445,"date":"2003-04-17T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-17T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/culture\/essays.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2003\/04\/17\/essays","title":{"rendered":"Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- keywords:Essays --> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/culture\/essay_wrong_critical_mass.html\">Why They&#8217;re Wrong About Critical Mass<\/a>: this essay was included in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/biblio?inkey=16-1902593596-1\">Critical Mass: Bicycling&#8217;s Defiant Celebration<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\">Powell&#8217;s Books<\/a>], published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akpress.org\">AK Press<\/a>. I recommend the book to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bok.net\/~jig\/Projects\/CM\/longerglossary.html\">velorutionaries<\/a> and their allies; it&#8217;s funny that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\">Powell<\/a>&#8217;s categorizes it in &#8220;Sports and Fitness-Bicycling&#8221; as well as &#8220;General&#8221;.<br \/><span class=\"update\">Updated: April 16, 2002<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/culture\/essay_moral_reasoning.html\">Moral Reasoning in Constitutional Interpretation<\/a>: This essay, written for a Constitutional Law class, responds to a question about the proper role of judicial moral reasoning in a case where a terminally ill patient, Mr. Cohen, is challenging the constitutionality of a State prohibition on medical marijuana use. For the purposes of this question, I ignore federal drug law and any issues of federalism or conflict-of-laws. Also available as a PDF (available soon)<pdf essay_moral_reasoning>.<br \/><span class=\"update\">Updated: April 15, 2002<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/culture\/essay_ip_mediation.html\">Alternative Dispute Resolution in International Intellectual Property<\/a>: I wrote this paper for a seminar on mediation, addressing some of the shortcomings of alternative dispute resolution procedures when intellectual property is involved. See also PDF (available soon)<pdf essay_ip_mediation>. <br \/> <span class=\"update\">Updated: August 16, 2002<\/span> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/culture\/essay_law_statement.html\">Personal Statement of Purpose<\/a>: My response to an alumni scholarship application, &#8220;Describe how you plan to use your legal skills to promote progressive social movements, systemic change, or solutions that address the root causes of social and economic injustice.&#8221;<br \/><span class=\"update\">Updated: January 22, 2003<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why They&#8217;re Wrong About Critical Mass: this essay was included in Critical Mass: Bicycling&#8217;s Defiant Celebration [Powell&#8217;s Books], published by AK Press. I recommend the book to velorutionaries and their allies; it&#8217;s funny that Powell&#8217;s categorizes it in &#8220;Sports and Fitness-Bicycling&#8221; as well as &#8220;General&#8221;.Updated: April 16, 2002 Moral Reasoning in Constitutional Interpretation: This essay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}