Three years and more have come and gone,
It’s been long and tough, but at some times fun.
So now we’ve arrived upon this very day,
To sit and listen at the end of our play.
For Jacques once said ‘All the world’s a stage’,
And we are its actors, its players, its knaves.
But our time as caterpillars has come [...]
It is absolutely amazing to me that “Complex Legal Transactions (CLT),” a course I’m taking in my third year at McGill Law is the first real business law class that’s taught beyond the introductory “Business Associations.”
Sure, you can take Tax and Corporate Tax, but CLT - taught in the smallest classroom in which they could [...]
That about sums how I feel about that JICP exam. The first two questions were fine…. Well, let me rephrase, the first question with two parts amounting to two separate questions went well.
What irked me was the second question, worth 40% of the grade on a topic which doesn’t even make into the syllabus! What [...]
I’ve been spending the past three or four days studying for my… ahem… Judicial Institutions and Civil Procedure (affectionately known as JICP) exam. In our class, we haven’t really made it to the “civil procedure” part yet. So you’re probably wondering how I can go into an exam for JICP when we haven’t even studied [...]
Well, let’s see if you can pass this little test. I will provide a quote from a professor. Your job is to tell me what you think it means. Here’s the quote (as heard and written down by me in class this fall):
“the relationship to what is non-subjectivity is abstracted from, and is a kind [...]
Law students need to have one thing on their minds when it comes to school, and one thing only: learning. The problem is the emphasis placed on grades. Now, McGill tries to mitigate this by imposing a policy of almost universal B-range grades for the vast majority of students. In other words, you go to [...]
