Criminal Law

I am in love with my criminal law class. Any class that begins with a case regarding cannibalism can't be that boring. (For the record - killing and eating the weakest member of your crew while lost at sea - not ok) .

But the best part of the class? Professor Robbins. First of all, he wears a bowtie, which automatically gives a fun, professory vibe. 10 points for that.

Secondly, he's genuinely funny. Not funny in the way many professors are, where anything they say that is remotely funny gets uproarious laughter, not because its really funny, but because its so startling to hear anything resembling a real live joke nestled into a dry 2 hour lecture that we can't help to laugh. And of course lets not forget that at least 1/3 law students are obnoxious suckups. I really do like most of my classmates that I've had a real life conversation with, but there are others who I deeply desire to stab with fork everytime they open their mouths and spew forth some asinine grab grubbing statement. And while doing so would have a fun irony in class on criminal law, thanks to my $40,000 legal education I also know that doing so would be wrong. But I digress.

Thirdly, this class actually has great potential to be genuinely interesting and though provoking - not just memorization of a million silly rules (ahem, civil procedure, I'm looking at you). He repeatedly pointed out that this was a class where the goal was to think! not mindlessly transcribe. No easy answers, just lots of complicated interesting questions about where to draw the line and justice and other good deep sounding things. He also wants us to have more of a seminarish atmosphere in class, which has potential to be hideous in a class of 101, but he seems good at leading class discussion, so I will maintain high hopes. Ah real discussion of complicated issues. Love.

Oh, I almost forgot reason number four - one of the main reasons he choose our textbook was because it gives gender and crime a serious treatment. And the feminist me rejoices!

On the less than good side of life, I still don't have my grades. How am I supposed to know if I can continue to survive as a happy slacker or if I need to give being a good student a try if I don't have my grades!