Monday, May 10, 2010

and for my next trick...

I am still waiting for my formal acceptance to the LLB program but you will be pleased to hear that I managed to finish off the introductory chapters of the study guides. Yippee! I fully expect that I will be rereading them a number of times, and despite the fact that I have not tried to complete any of the questions nor more than one or two of the readings, I feel a bit of accomplishment none the less. Also another small piece of good news is that a mate of mine returns from London tomorrow having purchased two of the recommended textbooks for the courses so I am looking forward to digging into those later in the week.

One bit of bad news however is that the school does not have a law journal. I was hoping to write for the law journal and also perhaps to get involved in it more deeply but it seems that law journals are not so common in Europe as they are at American universities. Even worse, it seems that a few years ago a law review was created at my university but shortly thereafter collapsed. Hmmm. Not a good thing and I would imagine that administrators at the school would not be too keen for having a go at supporting another. We shall see but that is definitely a minor issue for now.

One thing which I realized belatedly might be a point of concern is getting a reference out of the school. If I were to look for a vacation scheme (law work during vacation) or indeed apply to a traineeship (i.e. a mandatory two year training period), I believe that a recommendation from university would be important. But how does one get a recommendation if one never sees the professors? A question which will need to be posed...

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  1. Hello. Thanks for this great resource. It's good to get an on the ground account of how this whole external LLB thing goes.
    I am just now waiting for my acceptance and so it will be weeks before I actually have the books, study packs and access to the VLE.
    In your opinion is it ok to just focus on the study guides without the books and materials then catch up later? Or is that ill-advised? Would hate to have to buy the books twice but would hate even more to do poorly because i should have...

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    1. nb: I am doing 3 courses this year...

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