Green Bag Begins GMUSL Bobblehead Line
Parker, Krauss First Professors To Be Immortalized
Cullensom Wonells
Issue date: 4/1/05 Section: Big News
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In an effort to promote subscriptions to the Green Bag, a self-proclaimed "Entertaining Journal of Law," Davies had previously issued a set of heavily detailed bobbleheads depicting justices of the Supreme Court including Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and Associate Justices John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor and the upcoming, Antonin Scalia. Davies commented that the current bench was no longer keeping readers entertained, giving up the puns and jokes of old.
"They are just taking things way to seriously now," said Davies. "I thought bobbleheads would loosen them up, but apparently they weren't enough."
Davies chose to begin his new series of Mason Law bobbleheads with first-year professors since they were the most visible to students. Not diminishing the hard work and respect of the upper class professors, he noted that not everybody gets the opportunity to have them for class, while every student was required to take torts, contracts, property and criminal law. He further explained that it seemed only appropriate for Professors Parker and Krauss to be the first to have their images pasted onto the bobbling figurines that will constantly taunt students with memories of the tortures of theSocratic Method.
Similar to that with the Supreme Court Bobbleheads, a great deal of planning and design went into both professor prototypes, including details specific to their legal careers. "I would say I spent at least five minutes coming up with ideas for each one," Davies noted. "I tried to capture many of the elements that each colleague is known for."
The Professor Parker doll is wearing the jeans and sport coat in which he often appears in class. He also appears standing on both Evidence and Civil Procedure textbooks, two of the classes he has taught at GMUSL. While he has also taught Criminal Law, Dispute Resolution, Federal Sentencing Law and Litigation Practice, it was conceded by Davies that to include all of them would have been overkill.
"If I had added all of the books, not to mention supplements, that [Parker] requires or suggests for his classes, the doll would be four inches taller," Davies explained. "That would just be ridiculous."