[TimmonaPortella]

(Original post by Doughnuts!!)
Saving jurisprudence for 3rd year!

Family? Someone told me family is very easy to get a first in. And the guy got a first in family, so I'm figuring he's not bull****ting.

(I don't think I'd take it because I find it wholly uninteresting, at least atm).

I might take IP. Or CPE, because if I get significantly more altruistic before I leave cam I might go to the criminal bar (ofc with the usual caveats). Also Spencer teaches it. Which automatically makes it great.

(I'm also stuck for a fifth. Admin and juris are definites. Not sure if I can be bothered with international. I know I'm probably going to end up getting roped into doing it by society, anyway...)

[Cast.Iron]

(Original post by The West Wing)
There's at least 4-5 different types of Rule of Law . I must confess it was probably my favourite subject in Consti. It goes well with Royal Prerogative, Parliamentary Sovereignty etc. but I guess it's a big chunky topic that's probably droppable.

Cheers for the notes!

(Original post by Doughnuts!!)
I would actually love to do EU in Part 1B as I can't think of anything I'd like to do as a 3rd option but:

1) Seems like it'll be quite tough alongside Admin and International.
2( I don'tt know why, but I have a feeling my DoS would try and stop me from doing it...

Admin, International and Legal History ftw.

Also saving Juris for 3rd year.

[mirin?]

Hi everyone. I'm hoping to be accepted onto the LLM and would love to know who is also applying for the course. I am on a first at the minute at Newcastle Uni and Cambridge is my first choice for postgrad.

[TimmonaPortella]

(Original post by Cast.Iron)
Also saving Juris for 3rd year.

Why? What do you guys know that I don't?

[Cast.Iron]

(Original post by TimmonaPortella)
Why? What do you guys know that I don't?

I considered taking it next year but my DoS and Consti. supervisor (who is actually a Juris specialist) advised saving it for third year when I have a broader understanding of the law and because Part II candidates tend to get better results.

[TimmonaPortella]

(Original post by Cast.Iron)
I considered taking it next year but my DoS and Consti. supervisor (who is actually a Juris specialist) advised saving it for third year when I have a broader understanding of the law and because Part II candidates tend to get better results.

Hmmm... ok cheers.

[Doughnuts!!]

(Original post by TimmonaPortella)


Family? Someone told me family is very easy to get a first in. And the guy got a first in family, so I'm figuring he's not bull****ting.

(I don't think I'd take it because I find it wholly uninteresting, at least atm).

I might take IP. Or CPE, because if I get significantly more altruistic before I leave cam I might go to the criminal bar (ofc with the usual caveats). Also Spencer teaches it. Which automatically makes it great.

(I'm also stuck for a fifth. Admin and juris are definites. Not sure if I can be bothered with international. I know I'm probably going to end up getting roped into doing it by society, anyway...)

Family sounds so ridiculously boring. Same with CPE/CSPS (though I would actually consider doing one of them)

(Original post by Cast.Iron)

Admin, International and Legal History ftw.

...the hell?

Mate, I thought you were cool. Legal History. LEGAL HISTORY!

[Cast.Iron]

(Original post by TimmonaPortella)
Hmmm... ok cheers.

If it makes you feel better, my college mum is doing Juris this year. I was tempted myself.

(Original post by Doughnuts!!)


...the hell?

Mate, I thought you were cool. Legal History. LEGAL HISTORY!

Didn't you know? All the hipsters do Legal History .

But in all seriousness, I'm very tempted by it because it doesn't involve learning stupid amounts of case law.

[gethsemane342]

(Original post by Doughnuts!!)
I would actually love to do EU in Part 1B as I can't think of anything I'd like to do as a 3rd option but:

1) Seems like it'll be quite tough alongside Admin and International.
2( I don'tt know why, but I have a feeling my DoS would try and stop me from doing it...

EU is a pretty easy paper. They do the same questions nearly every year and you can drop half the syllabus and be absolutely fine.

But yeah, most DoSes don't let you do it till 3rd year. The guy who interviewed me, conversely, made 2nd years do it which is why my year and up have done it more-or-less.

(Original post by Cast.Iron)
I considered taking it next year but my DoS and Consti. supervisor (who is actually a Juris specialist) advised saving it for third year when I have a broader understanding of the law and because Part II candidates tend to get better results.

Of course, the guy who won the Juris prize last year, first year they let Part IB students do it, was a Part IB student. And everyone I've heard of who did it in Part IB did well.

Now IP is a different story.

(Generally, though, that argument is weak. Part II students outperform Part IB students in nearly every paper. And for all I said about EU, the reason we did better was because there were only 8 of us and the guy who wrote the paper supervised 6 of us. And the mark difference between the strongest Part IB paper and Part II paper is at least 16 marks. Part II students tend to have a firmer grasp of the law and exams)

[thediamonds]

Hello!
I am planning to apply to Cambridge university next year as an international student. The course that i am interested in is Law. I am currently doing the following AS subjects:

English Literature
History
Geography
Business Studies

I am considering taking an additional AS level in Russian next year. i will be self-teaching it. I was wondering whether it will give me an advantage?
Russian is spoken as a second language in my country, however my first language is Romanian. I am fluent in Russian but my essay writing is not as good and needs improvement. I am also doing EPQ over the summer and am confident that I will manage the workload...

[amg_22]

if you will find it fairly easy then it is worth doing but unis, especially Cambridge, tend not to give much credit to ASs which are of a language you a fluent in. four a levels and extended project seems more than enough to be honest; my advice would be to try to achieve the highest grades you possibly can in the subjects you are studying now rather than focusing on to much

[TimmonaPortella]

Do you guys reckon I can get away with just reading the EasyRead versions of the law com reports?

http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/...t_easyread.pdf

(Seriously, who's their target audience here?)

[gethsemane342]

(Original post by TimmonaPortella)
Do you guys reckon I can get away with just reading the EasyRead versions of the law com reports?

http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/...t_easyread.pdf

(Seriously, who's their target audience here?)

Just read the summary. You'll be fine. I wrote a whole essay about reform in one of my papers after skim-reading a summary of one of these, 2 weeks beforehand

[TimmonaPortella]

(Original post by gethsemane342)
Just read the summary. You'll be fine. I wrote a whole essay about reform in one of my papers after skim-reading a summary of one of these, 2 weeks beforehand

Good timing with that comment, I was about to read a 100 page report on intoxication

[triste91]

Does anyone know the schedule for exams this year?

[wawa1906]

(Original post by triste91)
Does anyone know the schedule for exams this year?

As far as I'm aware the actual timetable hasn't been released. But all parts of the tripos have a start date of 28th May.

[gethsemane342]

(Original post by triste91)
Does anyone know the schedule for exams this year?

Ask law students who are back next week - timetables should be made in the next 2 weeks or so. I do know that, contrary to popular belief, they don't just give you the same order as the previous year. (For which I'm glad - if I'd done Part II last year, I'd have had 4 exams in 5 days...)

[superfoggy]

it wont hurt your application, if it turns up in your offer then great. if it doesnt, then you can always flunk it

[g3rcyz]

Hey there people, prospective law student here hoping to find out more about the course at Cambridge. Is it true that you guys have to memorise everything except statutes (e.g. law theories/judgments/cases) for examinations? I've browsed a few law books and wouldn't there be an insane amount of stuff to memorise then for examinations?

[The West Wing]

(Original post by g3rcyz)
Hey there people, prospective law student here hoping to find out more about the course at Cambridge. Is it true that you guys have to memorise everything except statutes (e.g. law theories/judgments/cases) for examinations? I've browsed a few law books and wouldn't there be an insane amount of stuff to memorise then for examinations?

Yes, it looks insane now but you'll come to bean expert at learning cases and names etc.