Category Archives: U.Miami

Our A/C is busted again, and the nice man from the A/C company showed up today after only 48 hours of phone calls and two broken appointments to do a leak test on the lines, an expensive process that they tell me takes two days (with no A/C) to establish which of several candidate expensive parts will need to be ordered in (while we have no A/C) and then installed at yet more cost. The scenarios vary from expensive to amazing.

I explain all this not to complain, for such is the joy of home ownership in South Florida, but rather to explain why it is I have my study window open and thus have been hearing a loud buzzing engine noise for a couple of hours. I finally went outside to see if I could figure out what it might be — who would be running a generator when the neighborhood power has been steady for almost a week now? — only to see a blimp circling a bit south of here, with a giant airborne lighted news ticker advertising the 2011 Billboard Latin Music Awards, which I’ve just learned are indeed happening at the Convocation Center right now.

Kele Stewart, an Associate Professor of Clinical Legal Education here at U.M., has been named a Fulbright Scholar.

Kele will spend a year in Trinidad, based at Hugh Wooding Law School where she will study the implementation of the child welfare system in Trinidad and establish a child advocacy clinic at Hugh Wooding.

I would like to hire one full-time or two part-time summer research assistants for the coming summer. UM 1Ls are as welcome to apply as are UM 2Ls. In either case, if it works out, you could continue on a part-time basis during the school year if you wanted to.

It would be best if you could start very soon after exams finish. If you wanted to, you could take a break at some time in the summer.

About half the job (or the job for one of the part-timers) primarily involves helping me edit and manage Jotwell.com. The other half (or the other job) primarily involves assisting me with legal research relating to papers I am writing on privacy and on Internet regulation. Both jobs may entail a bit of occasional scut work as the law school is making me move all my files to make way for new construction on the third floor.

Both jobs require someone who can write clearly, and is well-organized. If you happen to have some web or programming skills (some or all of WordPress, HTML, MySQL, Perl, Debian), that would be a plus but it is not in any way a requirement.

The pay of $13 / hr is set by the university, and is not as high as you deserve, but the work is sometimes interesting.

If this sounds attractive, please e-mail me the following with the subject line SUMMER RESEARCH ASSISTANT 2011 (in all caps), followed by your name:

1. A note telling me
   • How many hours you’d ideally like to work per week
   • When you are free to start.
   • Your phone number and email address.
2. A copy of your resume (c.v.).
3. A transcript of your grades (need not be an official copy).
4. If you have one handy, also attach a short NON-legal writing sample. If you have none, I’ll accept a legal writing sample (whatever you do, though, please don’t send your LRW memo).