Good news! It looks like I'll qualify for a Public Interest Law Certificate by the time I graduate, without even having tried! I'll have 20 units of qualifying credit by gradution:

• Nor. Cal. Innocence Project (NCIP) (4)
• Mass Communications, Broadband, & Convergence (3)
• Broadband Regulatory Clinic (3)
• Environmental Law (3)
• Antitrust (3 - Fall '08)
• Law of Non-profit Orgs (2 - Fall '08)
• Community Economic Development (2 - Spring '09)

NCIP satisfies my "core" public interest requirement, with enough hours left over to also satisfy the certificate's 50-hour community service requirement (I worked enough hours this semester to earn two units, but I'm only taking one). The Community Economic Development course I'm taking in the spring will meet the "identity politics" course requirement; and my Mass. Comm. paper should meet the writing requirement.

Of course, who knows what good a "Public Interest Certificate" is, but it can't hurt!

UPDATE - 11 Sept 2008: ClaraNet has been upgraded to a new version of ERes which makes this script useless. I'll be working on a new solution soon.

Fellow SCU students: Have you ever wanted to download a batch of files from ClaraNet (ERes) only to be thwarted by obnoxious javascript links that interfere with your download manager? Last night, I got so fed up with ClaraNet (our law school's electronic course reserves system) that I spent all night writing a Greasemonkey script to tame it.

3 Easy Steps For the Impatient:

1. Install the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox here (or Firefox 3 build here).
2. After installing Greasemonkey (and restarting Firefox!), click on this script to install it in Greasemonkey: claranetlinkcleaner.user.js.
3. Visit ClaraNet and enjoy "real" http download links instead of the fake javacript ones that interfere with download managers (I recommend DownloadThemAll).

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