Damn, Why They Try And Stick Me For My Papers

a quick update of how the summer abroad program through university of western cape is going

our comparitive constitutional law class is being taught by one of the supreme court justices, so its basically like the equivalent of having cardozo, scalia, or one of those other chaps teaching us south african law. but the real interesting part is that he is blind and hard of hearing. amazing

i thought our exams were hard, but talking to a few of the students here, there exams are on a whole another level. first of all they have negative marking, that means for every wrong thing you say, or wrong answer to a multiple choice you lose a mark (it is possible to get a negative exam). you are also responsible to the remember the facts, holding and dissent of every case you read in class, but also the exact citation. they read about double the amount of cases per week, per class. although they have similiar exam formats and lengths of questions, they have to get everything they want in, in 1 and a half hours. there is no such thing as westlaw or lexisnexis, and certainly no reward points, but they have to do research in the library with actual books.