Things revision is making me realise and ponder ( Read more... )

Problem: utter failure to learn jurisprudence

Solution: dig out A2 ethics revision notes

Result: laugh hysterically at over-simplified nature, think wistfully of the days when philosophy was easy, and wonder what I was thinking when I wrote "P3 revision: To Be Learnt"

After I don't know how many years of exams, I have learnt the benefit of writing essay plans for all four questions at the start of an exam ( Read more... )

..except I don't think they were French. Not English, either, or at least not originally, but not French.

That aside, they were being sleazy French menSaturday, I was sitting having coffee with a friend, and a guy sitting at a nearby table came up to me and said ( Read more... )

Oh god. I have gone from studying the qualities needed to constitute a state and a governement, to assessing the legality and implications of "Wet Wet Wet: The Unauthorised Biography".

No, I don't have other content.

A person with citizenship granted by Germany is German.

A person with citizenship granted by Switzerland is Swiss.

A person with citizenship granted by Australia is Australian.

What the blazes is someone with citizenship granted by Liechtenstein(Yes, this is a serious question. It's really bugging me. I've only just realised Liechtenstein isn' ( Read more... )

I need help deciding my lecture notes.

In one of my public international law lectures, in the section on history and origins, I've written that IL was based on the divine right of kings under natural law until this idea was challenged by e.g. the French revolution.

After this, I have a margin note - c.f. Monty Python: Where's your mandate?Where ( Read more... )

So, I'm finally writing an essay on the question that everyone gets asked when they become a law student. Sadly, I will no longer be able to dodge the question. Oh dear.

Unfortunately, the answer is still, it seems, "I'm not really sure, no one can quite agree." Still, nice to know I wasn't lying all the times I said that before.

For those ( Read more... )

Part of Camden market has burnt down

... one of those "that's a film, right?" moments :s

I'm sitting here poking cases, swearing at[1] grumbling in the general direction of my tutor for giving me the wrong citations for all of them.

One of the cases reads: The applicant applied to register a trade mark... known as "the dark mark"Yes, boys and girls, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is alive and well, and exploiting legal measures to regulate ( Read more... )