What has me Fired Up (Part 1)
It's not that I don't find my studies interesting. I do. I'm currently preparing for my Charter exam. Let's face it, 1/3 of the Globe's National News is about one or another Charter right. Long before law school I wanted to weigh in on what should be done on these questions.
But there are things, not entirely unrelated to the law, though unexaminable, that keep me from my books. Currently, Zimbabwe is one of 3 things that take up at least an hour of my day. It's a country I've studied for years. Zimbabwe has me fired up. I visited the country to view the effects of farm resettlement, unemployment and inflation. I've watched with complete fascination as Zimbabwe has been systematically run into the ground by an arguably insane president.
South Africans like to claim that Bobby Mugabe has syphilis, which has gone to his brain.
Alas, all speculation aside, the shit is really beginning to hit the fan and Mugabe has become more defiant than ever. A recent report in the Mail and Guardian claims that Mugabe is running a secret police service that rivals the Apartheid's NIS in torture techniques (click here). The Guardian has also reported a US plot to remove Mugabe from power to restore order in the region.
The situation has grown in me an intense desire to move through my law school career at a faster pace. There must be international criminal and human rights laws that can be applied to this situation. Having to wait another 5 months to study them (or at least 0.5 until exams are done and I can do my own research) makes me feel removed from the things that I love.
But it also reminds me that while I busy myself with the study of property and contracts, there are truly wonderful aspects of the law that await me. There are answers to personally significant issues that are merely 5 exams away.
Upcoming Posts:
What has me fire up parts 2 and 3 - Access to Abortion in NB and Sexual Assault (A comparative approach b/t Canada and South Africa)
But there are things, not entirely unrelated to the law, though unexaminable, that keep me from my books. Currently, Zimbabwe is one of 3 things that take up at least an hour of my day. It's a country I've studied for years. Zimbabwe has me fired up. I visited the country to view the effects of farm resettlement, unemployment and inflation. I've watched with complete fascination as Zimbabwe has been systematically run into the ground by an arguably insane president.
South Africans like to claim that Bobby Mugabe has syphilis, which has gone to his brain.
Alas, all speculation aside, the shit is really beginning to hit the fan and Mugabe has become more defiant than ever. A recent report in the Mail and Guardian claims that Mugabe is running a secret police service that rivals the Apartheid's NIS in torture techniques (click here). The Guardian has also reported a US plot to remove Mugabe from power to restore order in the region.
The situation has grown in me an intense desire to move through my law school career at a faster pace. There must be international criminal and human rights laws that can be applied to this situation. Having to wait another 5 months to study them (or at least 0.5 until exams are done and I can do my own research) makes me feel removed from the things that I love.
But it also reminds me that while I busy myself with the study of property and contracts, there are truly wonderful aspects of the law that await me. There are answers to personally significant issues that are merely 5 exams away.
Upcoming Posts:
What has me fire up parts 2 and 3 - Access to Abortion in NB and Sexual Assault (A comparative approach b/t Canada and South Africa)
posted by Jana at 11:05 PM
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I've been keeping a low profile online lately. I'm not sure why, but I assure you I'm alive. :)
I went to a talk by Heather Mallick (know her? I didn't..) but on by UNB's Law Students for Choice. Shit, it was awesome! They had around 30 people when they did a similar even last year..this year they had THREE HUNDRED! I took a few copies of a few things that I thought might be interesting to you. I hope to mail them soon (heh heh...). No, really, I do! You should know, though, that at least 300 women in New Brunswick are ALSO fired up.
(Also, I got 6th row tickets today to see Gord. Think I'll be able to taste Gord Sweat (tm)?)
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