An Introductory Note

Travis will graduate from UC Hastings in 2008, and he is currently the Managing Editor of TLB, which he founded in 2006 with his friend Chris Cassidy. Travis worked for Harris & Moure, pllc, in Shanghai during the summer of 2007.

As Travis stated in his post, The Indispensable Minimum, the purpose of TLB is "to open a dialogue about issues that are obviously a concern to us, appeal to our particular interests, and inevitably have an overarching theme of transnationalism. In this forum we hope to further bolster our erudition, improve our writing, keep up on current events, and interact with other like minded folks." He is also a strong advocate of law students taking a proactive role in the blogosphere, arguing that the blogosphere presents law students with an opportunity to engage the subject matter and practitioners in a way that was never previously available.

He graduated from UC Berkeley in 2001 with a BA in western philosophy. The focus of his undergraduate studies was the philosophy of the mind and the philosophy of language, which centered on the work of John Searle. Travis has spent most of his professional life as a journalist, and he has worked for a number of publications, including Newsweek magazine. Prior to law school, Travis was the director of client relations at TestMasters, which he highly recommends to anyone preparing for the LSAT.

Travis annually visits Taiwan and he has traveled extensively in China. He spent most of 2004 living with a Chinese family in Taipei, Taiwan while studying Mandarin at the Taipei Language Institute. During the summer of 2006 he lived in Beijing, studying Chinese law at the China University for Political Science and Law while also working for Zhonglun Law Firm.

Travis enjoys sailing, SCUBA diving, boxing, reading and writing speculative fiction, and watching movies on the big screen.

Read what the National Law Journal had to say about Travis in an article entitled, Law Blogs Can Be a Successful Strategy for Jobseekers (pdf).