My Legal Space – Revision Edition

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a legal space picture so here’s my latest. Although I’m currently in the midst of revision, it should be noted that my desk has seen a slight improvement in tidiness from the last time.

Note an abundance of page-marking sticky notes on the monitor base – a sure sign that it’s revision season.

My Legal Space: On the road/Easter edition

As regular readers of Law Actually will know, I’ve travelled down to my home in Cornwall for a few days, visiting my poor neglected parents and indulging in a bit of R and R etc.  I’ve made a point of not working too much (though did start my research for my final Corporate Governance assignment earlier today). I thought it was high time I provided another '’My Legal Space’ photo so here’s an ‘on the road’ edition.

I’ve deliberately travelled light (in terms of my legal-gear) bringing just a laptop with me and no papers/books etc.  As you can see, I’ve been getting my sustenance from Coca Cola and a tube of mini eggs this afternoon.  Happy days!

Fun Fact: my favourite mini eggs are the yellow ones; my GF claims there’s no difference between the colours though!

My legal space/3rd IT law paper

Not so tidy, eh?  I came in for some stick for my last legal space photo, with allegations to the effect that I’d ‘staged’ it.  That wasn’t true – it was merely taken on one of my ‘neater’ days.  But anyway, here’s another photo just to demonstrate that I’m not always like that.

This pretty much sums up my whole experience with this 3rd and final IT law paper.  I feel it really ‘speaks’ to the progress I’ve made and sense of direction I’m experiencing with my thesis.  Oh yes!

I’m about to start the ‘writing process’, so, you know, lots of luck and motivation needed.

Sigh.

Another Assignment – Another ‘Legal Space’

I’m currently busily occupied cracking out the 2nd of my 3 Corporate Governance assignments – due in the middle of next week.  Happily, I’ve been able to tick-off from my checklist the IT law assignment and dissertation synopsis – both of which were causing me no end of trouble.  I’ve got a bad feeling about my IT law paper – more with the flow of the essay than the content – but it’s too late to worry about it now, I suppose.  I definitely find it much more difficult to whittle the range of material down in that subject – probably due to my ‘boundless enthusiasm’ for cyberlaw in general.

Not much has changed in my ‘legal space’.  Different assignment – but still reasonably tidy.  I got on with a bunch of filing on Monday (while Zetoc was down – a very, very sore subject with me at the moment) so cleared the backlog previously cluttering my desk. 

Fun fact: it’s not coffee in my ‘coffee’ mug – it’s tea.  Unusual because I’m not much of a tea-drinker.

While adjusting the curves (contrast to the non-technically minded) of the image in Photoshop, I created this inverted, rather freaky version:

 

I kind of like it. 

My ‘Legal Space’ – Part 1

Paying heed to the adage ‘if you can’t beat them – join them’, I thought this would be a good opportunity to document what is my ‘legal space’. I first saw this over at No. 634 – a US law student blog which is well worth checking out as it happens– who in turn got the idea from someone else.

I guess all of our working practices differ markedly and I’ve certainly seen some strange sights in law school libraries over the years. I’ve actually witnessed much more startling (and at times worrying) student study habits – including bizarre laptop positions - in previous universities where food and drink and general demeanour is less rigorously regulated than at my current and  very ‘traditional’ university.

Here, in all its raw, unaffected glory, is the natural habitat of a postgraduate law student in the midst of a pressing assignment. I should perhaps qualify the terms ‘raw’ and ‘unaffected’ here: my desk is currently considerably tidier than it has been of late owing to one of my girlfriend’s tidying fits that she is afflicted with every now and then.

Reflecting on it, my ‘legal space’ isn’t very ‘legal’ at all; in fact I could be studying almost any subject judging from the items littered on my desk. My textbooks and other legal goodies are stowed at haphazard – or as I’d rather think of it – strategic locations all around my office. Being without a suitably sized shelving unit to fit within arms’ reach of my desk, most of my folders are stowed behind me, leant up against the wall. I guess they form part of my ‘legal space’ too. Pictures will probably follow.

For the time being, here’s my legal space checklist: 

· Coffee mug – check.

· Textbook - check.

· Papers – check.

· Computer – check.

· Lamp – check.

· Friendly leather frog – check. Yep, he’s sitting on the lamp base. Don’t ask!

So there you are: everything a hard-working law student needs.

Strangely, no pens are visible: they’re probably buried under the papers though there is a stationery organiser behind my monitor.