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Laying Down the Law
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Published October 20, 2017
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June 30, 2022
This was a prescribed text for a law subject I completed. It was written well enough, but I wish the university had chosen a better text. I've found the best text for the same level of study (being of Australian law) to be 'Learning Law' (2ed) by Anthony Marinac (ISBN-13: 978-1108908191
). Mr Marinac runs the largest YouTube channel teaching Australian Law, which I see as one more indicator of his devotion to not only teaching law, but also in making law accessible to anyone and everyone.
_____ We've all heard "ignorance of the law is no defence", yet the societies we must live and move through make no effort to give us even a foundational knowledge of law; in other words we're not taught Law as a school subject. In the UK it has been available as a high school subject at least since the 1970s, yet I'd not heard of any school in the UK actually including Law along with the traditionally prevalent subjects like History and Geography. 'Legal Studies' was finally included as a subject in Australian schools as late as 1993, but after a lot of resistance. It's easy to feel that we -- at least we in the Anglosphere -- are deliberately kept ignorant of legal knowledge, yet we cannot use not knowing the law as a defence.
_____ I could add so much to this, but I've just reminded myself that my text here should be limited to the review of this book.
). Mr Marinac runs the largest YouTube channel teaching Australian Law, which I see as one more indicator of his devotion to not only teaching law, but also in making law accessible to anyone and everyone.
_____ We've all heard "ignorance of the law is no defence", yet the societies we must live and move through make no effort to give us even a foundational knowledge of law; in other words we're not taught Law as a school subject. In the UK it has been available as a high school subject at least since the 1970s, yet I'd not heard of any school in the UK actually including Law along with the traditionally prevalent subjects like History and Geography. 'Legal Studies' was finally included as a subject in Australian schools as late as 1993, but after a lot of resistance. It's easy to feel that we -- at least we in the Anglosphere -- are deliberately kept ignorant of legal knowledge, yet we cannot use not knowing the law as a defence.
_____ I could add so much to this, but I've just reminded myself that my text here should be limited to the review of this book.
August 26, 2023
Splendid read. I was surprised upon completion of the last page to note an email from PWC with an offer to start as CEO the next week - it seems they too are aware of the value an alumni of such a hallowed text as this one could bring to their firm.
February 18, 2022
This book is written in a very simple and friendly manner. I congratulate the authors.
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