"We the wheelbarrows."

This post is going firmly under 'bizarre,' as it's a SoC piece cataloging some of the more bizarre aspects of American Law School. No disrespect meant to any of my professors, obviously- this is more of a sideways look at some of the issues thrown up by the Socratic method. The title is a quotation from a speech by Douglas arguing that slavery was unconstitutional. I think it may be this semester's Carbolic Smoke Ball Co.

So we're talking about Glee. OK, I'm sure that's relevant- social change or something - the New York mob? Right. How did we get there? Yes, I think we should shoot 9 out of every ten admissions to the court- are we still on Spencer? Oh, yes, we are. I didn't realise the court was actually in charge of preventing deserters in France - Carolinian seccession would obviously lead to nuking Connecticut. "OK, so you like, go to the court, right, and you, like, need a lawyer" - are we still on Spencer? OK, yes we are- I'm so confused... oh, we're back onto crime bosses now- what is it with New England states? "Guilty of lots of murders," right then.... "Where's Whitey" sounds like a horribly racist game. The courts enforcing their own judgments? Why do I now have a picture of machine-toting judges? You know what, I'm not going to take Philosophy of Law next year ... We're not on Spencer anymore?
OK, new case, Bankovic, jurisdiction - what does the weather report look like? Is that a trick question? No one really wants to answer - no, it's not a hospital. "Killing people is morally wrong," excellent ... is that a legal justification? How do you justify wars anyway? Isn't that the whole point? - OK, swimming through NATO countries, still not on jurisdiction. "Recky-Vick," sounds like a boxer - when did we get on to jailing Belguim? Where would they keep that prison? "Was it legal to hurt these people?" Probably not- oh, we're still on jurisdiction. Siobhan could definitely pass as an English actress- she has the face for it- but why would anyone holiday in Hartford?
"There are no perfect countries," still on Bancovic, I wish I could remember how the Commission decided that it was extra-territorial - oh, wow, quick move to Gaima, now I have a picture of Belgium and the Netherlands pushing this poor guy back and forth across the border- at least the Commission took care of him. I wonder whatever happened to the poor guy? How do you end up without an identifiable originating country? And why did they think that the Netherlands was an ideal place to deport him to? Why not France?
Inexplicable? Yes, I think so...