In the What Did I Get Myself Into? series, I'll be chronicling my time as a law school student. Today's episode: The Adventures of Puffendorf and Bynkershoek.
From my Property Law casebook:
"Puffendorf defines occupancy of beasts ferae naturae, to be the actual corporal possession of them, and Bynershoek is cited as coinciding in this definition."
Just... look at those names. Puffendorf. Bynershoek. They sound like two characters from a Shakespeare parody.
Also, from my Legal Writing textbook:
"It is common to arrive at law school expecting that learning the law will be like learning the rules of Monopoly."
Ah, yes. The old law-school-as-a-board-game analogy. The origins of this aged and attested apophthegm date back to the early 1920's, when a young Charles Darrow became so amused by his portly property professor, with his top hat, thick mustache and ghostly, pale complexion, that the aspiring young student dropped out during his first year to venture into the world of g-
Wait a second.
Monopoly!? Who in THE HELL thinks law school is like Monopoly?!?
Amazingly, the author then goes into a 500-word exposition on the rules of Monopoly. I wish I was kidding. Only after which, we're greeted with this stunner:
"The law is not quite like Monopoly."
Holy Puffendorf! You don't friggin say!
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Wow. That's even better between my law book's hypothetical discussion between "Pro" and "Con". I bet you can't tell which is for and which is against...
I think your posts of the last week may turn out to be more entertaining than my entire semester of International Relations. I actually laughed out loud - at work! - when I read, "...and let me tell you, it is a bitch to clean up." Fortunately, I didn't get fired.
A couple quotes from one of today's class. One anyone can find amusing, the second one takes a law-type:
1) "All of us can relate to having the wrong leg cut off."
2) "A tortfeasor is someone who runs around commiting torts."
If I ever made a blog dedicated exclusively to law school, i'd call it "Legally Insane."
Just had a monopoly reference in class... Apparently law school is like the game.
it's like there's this giant conspiracy to blur the lines between graduate schools and board games.
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