My First Week of Lectures

So, as promised, here it is, the rundown of my first week of lectures. Unlike every week from now on, in the first week we were allowed to take as many subjects as we want - hell, if we had a time-turner and the capacity to stay awake during even the most boring discussion of the minutiae of international transactions we could have taken every single subject. Here are the ones I opted for:

• International Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force: Oooo.. guns, bombs and death. Yes please, mark me down as a definite to take this one forward.
• Comparative Constitutional law: I've got an odd obsession with constitutional law, and here was the opportunity to find out more and compare our constitution with others. The public law geek inside me was practically slavering at the prospect. Just a shame I didn't have enough credits to go on with it.
• International Refugee Law: But the Daily Mail told me asylum seekers were bad people, why does this tutor disagree?
• World Trade Law: This was your basic "sit on the floor, this subject is too popular and there aren't enough seats" introduction.
• International Human Rights: My notes for this lecture record three Lost references:
• John Locke - She referred to the English philosopher, I was thinking of the coolest bald man ever to grace our TV screens.
• Sayeed - Say "Edward Said" out loud and they're both very similar.
• Eko - Ok, she just said "echo" (discussing how Marx and Bentham echo each other in certain works), but by this time I was on a roll.
• International Trade Law: I'm unable to tell you exactly what was said during this lecture, as I spent most of the time looking at the spit accumulating around the tutor's mouth.
• Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes: A solid performance from a visiting tutor, definitely taking this one on.
• State crime: Cancelled in the first week (and of course they didn't tell us this at the time, cue lots of running around the building trying to find the tutor), in the second week it was revealed that the theme of this subject will not be the ICC and international criminal law (as I was hoping) but "states and "corporations" are evil... Muahahahahahahaaha!". Not agreeing with this simplistic viewpoint myself, I opted out.

I've chosen to take on Armed Conflict, International Human Rights and Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes, and then take a short module in Technology and Intellectual Property next term. Here's hoping I've made the right choices.