Optimus Prime (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} autobotsrollout) wrote,@ 2007-11-06 14:56:00 |
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Oi! Peanut gallery!
My only class selection option in first year is the "perspective option" seminar. Having eliminated the options I don't particularly care about and the options which might be attracting were it not for their timeslot (listening to Professor Mandel rant about the Charter of Rights and Freedoms for three hours a week might be horrifically entertaining, but I'm not staying on campus till 10 PM Wednesday night), I'm left with three alternatives, all of them interesting. However, I also have the option to take any of these second year if I particularly need to do so.
Globalization and the Law. Pros: Necessary to enter the International/Comparative/Transnational stream of law at Osgoode, which is really good for employment all around after school, especially if you want a job which involves a lot of travel. Cons: International law is vague. Hardcore students into ICT are quite possibly the most annoying international-(wo)men-of-business types. And I don't know if I want to restrict myself into the ICT stream just yet.
Legal Values: Challenges In Intellectual Property. Pros: Well, obviously I already have an interest in IP law, given my personal history involving it and all. Plus, this is the only perspective option where your research paper can potentially win you a prize and be presented to the federal government. (I am unsure of who actually ends up reading it. Possibly nobody.) Cons: IP law doesn't just count as the interesting bits to me about copyright and trademark and fair use and the challenges of digital media, but also patent law, which is A) very intense and B) not interesting to me particularly, and I don't know how the course will divide up by area. Also, the course summary pretty much says "be forewarned, this is harder than average."
Tax Law As An Instrument Of Social Policy. Pros: Has been recommended by upper year students who have said it is good. Useful if I want to work in policy creation or agitating for policy change, which is attractive to me. Cons: It's still tax law, at least peripherally, and tax law is dull dull DULL. Unlike other choices, no marks awarded for class participation (whereas in others, participation is twenty percent, and given my high involvement in class I'm good for the entirety of it.)
Thoughts?
My only class selection option in first year is the "perspective option" seminar. Having eliminated the options I don't particularly care about and the options which might be attracting were it not for their timeslot (listening to Professor Mandel rant about the Charter of Rights and Freedoms for three hours a week might be horrifically entertaining, but I'm not staying on campus till 10 PM Wednesday night), I'm left with three alternatives, all of them interesting. However, I also have the option to take any of these second year if I particularly need to do so.
Globalization and the Law. Pros: Necessary to enter the International/Comparative/Transnational stream of law at Osgoode, which is really good for employment all around after school, especially if you want a job which involves a lot of travel. Cons: International law is vague. Hardcore students into ICT are quite possibly the most annoying international-(wo)men-of-business types. And I don't know if I want to restrict myself into the ICT stream just yet.
Legal Values: Challenges In Intellectual Property. Pros: Well, obviously I already have an interest in IP law, given my personal history involving it and all. Plus, this is the only perspective option where your research paper can potentially win you a prize and be presented to the federal government. (I am unsure of who actually ends up reading it. Possibly nobody.) Cons: IP law doesn't just count as the interesting bits to me about copyright and trademark and fair use and the challenges of digital media, but also patent law, which is A) very intense and B) not interesting to me particularly, and I don't know how the course will divide up by area. Also, the course summary pretty much says "be forewarned, this is harder than average."
Tax Law As An Instrument Of Social Policy. Pros: Has been recommended by upper year students who have said it is good. Useful if I want to work in policy creation or agitating for policy change, which is attractive to me. Cons: It's still tax law, at least peripherally, and tax law is dull dull DULL. Unlike other choices, no marks awarded for class participation (whereas in others, participation is twenty percent, and given my high involvement in class I'm good for the entirety of it.)
Thoughts?
