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17049554 No.17049554 [Reply] [Original]

How do I become a jurist? (of British law)
>A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar—not necessarily with a formal qualification in law or a legal practitioner.

1. I'm not an Anglo.
2. I studied literature.
3. I want to do this as a sort of hobby/interest.

Any reading charts? syllabi? anything you can recommend?

>> No.17049561

The law is soul crushing and arbitrary

>> No.17049564
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>>17049554
Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England is a good place to start.

>> No.17049758

>>17049564
thank you!

>> No.17050084

Not sure why you'd want to, to call law mind-numbingly boring is an understatement

>> No.17050178

>>17050084
English common law sounds alien to me, what I really want to achieve is that hopefully I'll understand the philosophy behind it, and the practice of that philosophy.

I also bought A Theory of Justice to understand the contemporary Anglo political philosophy

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>>17049554
>>17049561
>>17050084
Jurists are based, OP read Carl Schmitt.

>> No.17050728

>>17050367
Thanks, I already own Concept of the Political

>> No.17051248

>>17050084
OP seems to be mostly interested in philosophy of law, not the actual regulations and their branches of study.

>> No.17051303

>>17049554
So you "studied" literature anon do this as a sort of hobby anon
Are you unemployed anon ?

>> No.17052540

>>17051303
I teach English at a university (in my home country)

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>>17049554
OP, first and foremost, the philosophy of law (jurisprudence) is one thing, the study of actual laws and regulations is another thing. From your comments, I understand that you want to understand the interplay between the two. To do so, you must have basic knowledge of the following areas of law: public Law (Constitutional law), the law of torts, the law of contracts, criminal law, land law (Gravells is a very good textbook), the laws of trusts, and some international law (EU Public law, international trade law, the laws of war, international criminal law, and the European Convention of Human Rights). Failure to have even basic knowledge of these areas will make you a pseudish reader of jurisprudence and will not help you achieve your goals.

My advice is to start with public law, as it is the most open-ended and it relies the most on jurisprudence. Once you are done with that, I highly recommend you go through pic related. It has a wide range of contributors and it is a good starting point for further reading. Only then, you will be able to read Carl Schmitt as an actual jurist.

If you want to see the interplay in action, make sure to read the judgments of all landmark cases. You will see how judges to reason and why they come to such and such conclusion. To have access to case law, you must buy a subscription to westlaw or LexisNexis.

I would say: "Hope this helps XD", but I know that this is the best reply ITT.

Good luck with your reading.
If you want to, we can stay in touch on discord, as I am preparing for a PhD programme and my thesis will be refutation of human rights.

>> No.17053064

>>17049554
Law is boring as fuck.

>> No.17053142

>>17053064
Law is not boring.

>> No.17053391

How do i become a German engineer? I have no degree, i can't do math, i'm not German and i just want to do it as a hobby btw.