Law Movie Night: The Paper Chase

By popular demand, the Legal Cinema Studies Society presents a screening of the film classic The Paper Chase, starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and John Houseman.

James Hart is a struggling first-year Harvard law student, desperately trying to impress his strict and intimidating contracts professor, Charles Kingsfield.

Wednesday, August 31, at 8:00 PM, in room 285

Free popcorn and pop will be provided!

Coming soon...

Our first Law Movie Night of the year will announced soon. We'll keep you posted...

Landlocked Film Festival

Like movies? Well, there's this film festival going on here in Iowa City. It features more than just legal films, but sometimes those are good too.

http://www.landlockedfilmfestival.org/

B-Movie Posters for Classic Films

B-Movie Posters for Classic Films
These are great! Check out the law movie ones!

Law Movie Night: Legally Blonde

Join the Legal Cinema Studies Society for a pre-finals study break on Thursday, April 14th at 7 PM in BLB Room 245.

Free popcorn and soda will be provided!

Omigod, you guys, I am so excited for this Law Movie Night. To get ready, I offer this song from the musical adapted from the movie:

The Lincoln Lawyer

Law Movie Night Out was a lot of fun! Thanks to everyone who came!

I recommend The Lincoln Lawyer to those who have not seen it yet. It is a very entertaining legal thriller, with lots of suspense all the way through.
The film touches on areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, and legal ethics.
I think the issues of legal ethics the film raises are most interesting. While the film's story is not very realistic, it is still interesting to watch how Matthew McConaughey's character deals with the ethical issues raised as the story progresses. He must deal with conflicts regarding the loyalty to his client and the duties imposed on criminal defense attorneys. The character bends some rules, and breaks some others.
The film makes for interesting discussion on legal ethics, and is quite entertaining. Overall: Highly recommended

Law Movie Night Out: The Lincoln Lawyer

On Wednesday, March 30, the Legal Cinema Studies Society invites you to join us at a local movie theater to watch the latest legal thriller to hit the big screens: The Lincoln Lawyer.

Specific times and location are TBD.

Rolling Stone's Peter Travers writes: The Lincoln Lawyer "is a slam-bang twister of a legal thriller."

Roger Ebert says The Lincoln Lawyer is "engagingly acted and entertaining."

Join us for a big-screen Law Movie Night event!