Hello!
Let me start by
introducing myself... I'm Obama-in-training. Obie for short.
Joining
me is my learned friend and co-writer, Lexie (Lex for short which you will all
know to be Latin for law I'm sure)
Lexie and
I, as our profile says, are students at Sussex Law School, and proud as punch
to be attending such a fine, upstanding higher educational establishment that
isn't in the Russell group! Ha! But in all seriousness people, It is a fine
institution. We have a great faculty, with superior knowledge (helpful for
getting you out of those sticky situations with the police after a drunken
night out... you know who you are!) and sensational charisma. The fact that I
just got accepted into the newly established Innocence Project (USIP) is going
a looong way toward boosting my opinion of the school, and it's members. Lexie
may disagree...
So you
can probably tell, by the fact that we are still so patriotic towards our
faculty, that we are first year law students. The babies of the bunch. The
bottom of the proverbial food chain as it were. We think we know everything,
suddenly all our friends start coming to us for legal advice; in fact, we know
NOTHING! But that's why we started this blog... we find, especially with law,
and I'm sure most people agree that discussing cases and articles that we read,
both for educational and recreational purposes, are better understood when
there is a group of you discussing it (or at least you can turn to the smartest
person in the group for all the answers, much like in seminar's, when there is
only one person speaking, because they are the only one's that have bothered to
do any of the reading, and you are content to sit back and watch this happen,
chiming in occasionally so you don't score anything less than a 2:i for your
termly report, ironically, Lexie and I are so full of it, we obviously consider
ourselves to be the best in the class, and are such nerds that we actually
bother to do the reading, and learn something so we get our £9000-worth of
education, that we are the saddo's that dominate the seminars, along with a
select group of other conscientious individuals). Therefore, that’s the aim of
the game: aside from imparting our insanely funny sense of humour upon the
world, we plan to keep law students, and whosoever else in the general public
that deigns to read our blog, updated of news, especially legal news (to help
increase our commercial awareness, something we are all too familiar when it
comes to job applications), by posting links to various articles on the
internet and twitter; AND critically analyse the cases that we learn about as
we go along in order to gain a deeper understanding of the ratio (Mary's ELS
lectures are actually coming in handy!) and have a bit of a discussion, to help
with essay writing. We will also try and keep our readers updated of any vac
schemes, training contracts, pupillages and mini's, and provide useful hints
and tips to successfully completing an application (in any career, not just
law).
So please
do feel free to contribute at any time! We look forward to interacting with you
all!
Disclaimer:
All you clever-clogs (especially those reading Law) will of course realise that
these are not our real names; we have been forced (by some unknown-to-us-as-yet
law) to remain anonymous in order to protect ourselves from the liability of
any tortious acts we may commit (i.e defamation). However, we are of course
always protected by the primary defense: We are writing only our opinions, not
the opinion of the university or any other individual or public body, and
anything we do publish should not be taken as hard fact (unless of course we
tell you it is!). Also having to use code-names makes everything infinitely cooler!
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