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It's tough at USyd. I got 84 in Foundations, and according to my tutor that mark was the 3rd best of her two classes (which would comprise about 50 students). This semester I look set to barely scrape a distinction for Torts, because it's the most horribly boring and uninteresting subject ever...

No surprises whatsoever in HSTY1044, thankfully. On the home stretch now, just Thursday's Law exam to go.

- Definitional question on fascism - Holocaust and whether it can be compared to other events (I actually did the readings for this one!) - Either the definitional question on totalitarianism or the Spanish Civil War as a backup. As you can tell, I'm mostly doing the abstract, -ism based...

To all HSTY1044ers, what two questions are you studying for?

Um...I'm pretty sure the RTA has been delegated the authority to make legal regulations through legislation such as a Motor Vehicles Act.

Then it seems you're taking a stance similar to that of Kierkegaard, who said that implicit in all belief in a supernatural entity was an irrational "leap of faith". That position is understandable enough to take (it's certainly preferable to arrogant theism), but is not immune to criticism.

Please refer me to the part of that chain of 'logic' that states the first uncaused cause is necessarily an omnibenevolent, omniscient AND omnipotent God. Once you've done that, though, you still haven't proved God's existence without any holes, because you have to explain the origin of the...

But that's a flawed argument, because when you introduce spirituality into the debate it renders the prospect of ever approaching a stance on God null and void. It's like saying "all our views are different, yet they might all be correct, even if they're fundamentally opposed". Spiritual...

I'm about to sleep, but just reading the last couple of pages of this thread has seriously disturbed me. There really are people out there who think God is some puppetmaster controlling every single event, no matter how miniscule, contradictory or whatnot. Even worse, we have people who believe...

People are here to discuss the intellectual question of whether or not God exists, not the spiritual one.

Re: Questions: US recognition, motivation I kinda answered your first question in the other thread on overseas opportunities. As for the second one regarding motivation: my natural interest in the subject motivates me to study. That held true last semester, because I really enjoyed...

Re: Hey, 'soft law' question International law is by its very nature voluntary. The concept of state sovereignty, which states that every state has the authority to exercise its own will, renders the prospect of enforceable international laws impossible. Most nation-states, however...

The US and UK are both common law countries, and Australian law is littered with precedents originating from the House of Lords (and, to a much lesser extent, US courts) anyway. I'm sure there's some qualification test required, or maybe a six-week bridging course or something, but certainly...

Or it could just be that the question is necessarily indeterminable.

I believe people are making a link between the 1789 French Revolution, driven in part by socialist sentiment, and atheism. France, as a kind of de facto secular state, overwhelmingly rejected symbols of the counter-revolution such as refractory priests. Nevertheless, stupid and irrelevant...

Then the process would be much the same, but would just require doing a few more units in summer school.

Yeah, it'd seem the only real thing of value they ask for in return is a soul :p.

Apparently New York has good opportunities for Australian graduates. I received an email recently which pegged starting salaries over there at USD$145,000 a year. That's not to say the work will be stimulating, though. As for Oxford - I believe you're referring to the BCL (Bachelor in Civil...

Just on that, this new credit point system is giving me the shits. Now, I'm doing Arts/Law, not Com/Law, but I think the requirement for a major (36 credit points) is the same. It's possible to do two majors, but this requires overloading in both years II and III and doing at least one unit...

What you're referring to is judicial activism, and it's only a good thing in small doses. Yes, judges will inevitably 'make' law as opposed to applying it, but the fact of the matter remains that they can only do this to the extent that the existing common law system allows - they must work...