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Aha! so you will become a true linguist - lawyers have to be very adept in the use of language, although I general swear like a trooper when I have to translate contracts or powers of attorney :-) Any particular branch of law or just law in general are you studying?
My love for language(s) is certainly one of the reasons why I'm studying law. And I'm studying European law with emphasis on international, comparative law. I'm only doing my bachelor at the moment, though, so I'll look into particular branches once I get to my master.
I think comparative law is an interesting area even within the EU, given for example jurisprudence applied in the UK and Roman law applied in the Spanish State, not to mention the variations within each member state. I often get contracts and occasionally other kinds of legal deeds drawn up in Bizkaia which is governed by "derecho foral" - except that "foral" here doesn't exactly refer to "privilege" and yet it does, it's an idiosyncratic form of law peculiar to Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, because the "derecho foral" in Navarre is different again - and trying to explain that in English is a nightmare.
Are you going to go to take up the Erasmus option while doing your bachelor to get an insight into a different European uni and see law from that point. Several of my students did the Erasmus option at Lovaina in Belgium, which they said was quite interesting
I'm probably going to do the Erasmus-thing once or twice. Depending on my master, it might even be mandatory (there's one, law and language studies, in which it's mandatory to go to two different countries).
In Belgium, huh? I'm studying in Maastricht, about twenty minutes from the border to Belgium *grins*
Yeah! Some unis tend to insist on it depending on the studies. Maastricht home of that dreadful treaty :-) I read it through, was as bad a the first draft of the Spanish Constitution written back in the 70s :-) There are probably other unis offering law in Erasmus, but Lovaina seems to be the most popular
I'm thinking Dublin or Paris or Helsinki, maybe, or some place I've never been to before. It'd be interesting. But yeah, I still have lots of time to figure it out. At least a year.
Helsinki sounds more interesting than Dublin or Paris, not that I know any of these places, since I'm not much of a traveller; but you'll probably find fewer people apply for Helsinki than the other two which is another factor to bear any mind, in the meanwhile, getting good marks this year will help :-)
I've been to all three, though I've lived in Dublin and visited Paris several times and Helsinki only once and for a day, so... Yeah. In Helsinki, there'd be the problem with the language, though. I could probably learn Swedish quickly enough, but Finnish? Would take me a while and lots of effort.
Most Erasmus courses are in English or French from what I can gather, although there are exceptions. One of my student's brother did Erasmus in Sweden and it was in English!! Most Scandinavians speak English and German, so it's likely any Erasmus course could be offered in one of those 2 languages as opposed to the local language. I think the only countries where you'd have little option but to speak the language of the country would be in the UK/France/Spanish State - probably due to our "inability" or "unwillingness" to learn foreign languages. Or like one fellow Brit here in Bilbao who didn't want to learn Spanish well in case he lost his English accent!!
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I often get contracts and occasionally other kinds of legal deeds drawn up in Bizkaia which is governed by "derecho foral" - except that "foral" here doesn't exactly refer to "privilege" and yet it does, it's an idiosyncratic form of law peculiar to Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, because the "derecho foral" in Navarre is different again - and trying to explain that in English is a nightmare.
Are you going to go to take up the Erasmus option while doing your bachelor to get an insight into a different European uni and see law from that point. Several of my students did the Erasmus option at Lovaina in Belgium, which they said was quite interesting
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In Belgium, huh? I'm studying in Maastricht, about twenty minutes from the border to Belgium *grins*
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Maastricht home of that dreadful treaty :-) I read it through, was as bad a the first draft of the Spanish Constitution written back in the 70s :-)
There are probably other unis offering law in Erasmus, but Lovaina seems to be the most popular
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One of my student's brother did Erasmus in Sweden and it was in English!! Most Scandinavians speak English and German, so it's likely any Erasmus course could be offered in one of those 2 languages as opposed to the local language.
I think the only countries where you'd have little option but to speak the language of the country would be in the UK/France/Spanish State - probably due to our "inability" or "unwillingness" to learn foreign languages. Or like one fellow Brit here in Bilbao who didn't want to learn Spanish well in case he lost his English accent!!
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