Persona

Name: Erick Rhoan

Age: 28

Current Location: The Internet

Current School: San Joaquin College of Law

Former School: Cal State University, Fresno

Interests: Sleep, labor & employment law, national security law, and federal Indian law.

Greatest Philosopher: Michel Foucault

Greatest Florentine: Niccolo Machiavelli

Greatest Roman Emperor: Julius Caesar

Greatest President: John F. Kennedy

Greatest Attorney General: Robert Kennedy

Greatest Scientist: Albert Einstein

Greatest Movie: Kingdom of Heaven

Greatest Mathematician: Pythagoras

Greatest Film Director: Ridley Scott

Greatest Epic: The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

Greatest Short Story: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Greatest Native American: Tie between Tenaya and Chief Joseph.

Greatest Historical Villain: Arnaut de Cervole

Greatest War Hero: Cincinnatus

Greatest Religious Treatise: Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther

Greatest American War: the American Civil War

Greatest Book of the Bible: the Book of Genesis

Greatest Video Game: Final Fantasy IV

What were you doing before law school?
I graduated from CSUF in 2005 with a B.A. in history and didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life.  Was still unsure about law school, so when I got a call from a former professor wanting to recruit me to the graduate program I said sure, that sounds cool.  So, I signed up for the M.A. program in History and had a lot of fun – made a lot of friends and got used to the graduate-level courses.  It was the best prep for law school a guy could have.

Why did you want to go to law school?

I have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge; I must know everything and anything, it is a hunger for learning that I have had since I was a kid.  Fast forward years later and I’m fresh out of college, I write great research papers on historical topics like the historiography surrounding Machiavelli or the decline of chivalry in 14th Century France, and I have this unsatiable desire to move on to a future where I learn everything about how the world works, being able to occupy a position of power to move and shape the world in some form or another, and put my writing ability to good work.  Law school just seemed like a no-brainer to me.