Warren Ellis fic rec

[kangeiko]

Mr Ellis posts occasional fic to his live journal and feed. Have a look at this latest gem:

Mister Ramp.

Yes, I know I'm supposed to be reading about the shortcomings of the ICCPR. What of it?

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[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

ICCPR

Hee. I've just gone over the ICTY and the ICTR. Not that there is any connection, but aren't acronyms great fun? PILers think so, definitely. & ;-)

[kangeiko]

Acronyms=aaaarggghhhh! *wail* There is no way I'm going to be able to sort my ICCPR from my ICESCR and ICTY and ICTR and CEDAW and DEDAW and can I just say, convention on the elimination of discrimination against women = CEDAW, commission on the elimination of discrimination against women = CEDAW; iccpr = covenant but also has a commission.

in fact, *headdesk*

i have decided to search for sweeties.

my plan is to write up all notes onto handy bits of paper (no more than three sides per topic, twenty topics), which allows summary into no more than one side per topic tomorrow.

and also drugs. all the pro-plus in the world. *hiccup*

say, d'you suppose i could disguise you as me and then that would be like, showing initative?

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

say, d'you suppose i could disguise you as me and then that would be like, showing initative?

Where's the part that made you think I'm any good at PIL? ::browses back curiously:: & ;-)

Good luck, my fellow sufferer under the law. I've found that summarising like whoa *does* help a great deal.

[kangeiko]

Good luck, my fellow sufferer under the law. I've found that summarising like whoa *does* help a great deal.

Yes. *breathes out* Thank you for the good luck. I was very happy with the law exam, actually. Not that it was easy by any means, but I had to answer 3 questions out of 12, and there were a good four or five in there that I would have been happy attempting. I ended up doing -

- a question on whether reservations to CEDAW strike the right balance between local particularity and universal human rights,

- a question on the ways in which international human rights law has dealt with violence against women in the private sphere,

- a question on whether international law on refugees has been slow to take up gender-specific concerns.

I dunno how I di on it (certainly better than my geography exam, which was on nothing related to my course, as far as I could tell), but the questions were fair and solid. So.. *crosses fingers*