LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 21/05/2025I've not had much luck finding other people doing a career change into law (or who've done it already) - it's discouraging to constantly read advice headed "are mature students disadvantaged?"; even if the answer is "no", maybe phrase it positively? 000
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Starting my second (& last) term for #pgdl I'm not much closer to deciding between barrister and solicitor, or narrowing down a specialist area. 100
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Imagine my disappointment in learning that the "something likely to do mischief" in Rylands and Fletcher was just water...😐 I had cursed objects, imps, or at least a flock of malevolent swans on mind. 000
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Reasonable reasonable reasonable reasonable reason able reasonable not reasonable reason able reasonable reasonable #learning #legalanguage 000
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 13/03/2025"...and the spokesperson for the fair and reasonable man...must be the court itself" The law as spirit medium. 010
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 13/03/2025For example this delightful observation from contract law: "the parties themselves have become so far disembodied spirits that their actual bodies should be allowed to rest in peace. In their place arises the figure of the just and reasonable man..." 110
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I used to be a Gothicist (or I still am? Does one cease to be anything?) & one of my most brilliant mentors was a former lawyer-turned-academic who wrote on Gothic and the Law. At every turn now, I can see why... 110
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I don't think I knew what "grey" was until I started studying law. I used to blithely say there was no right answer in my former life, but I don't know now if that was ever really true. Or it was just a measure of my security and comfort that I could exist with uncertainties of a knowable kind. 010
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Must be his influence that I've already fallen down two oubliettes into the philosophy of Tort, rather than the application of specific tort law to specific examples... 010
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 18/02/2025In good company for a morning of revision in the basement of the library. 110
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Spending a week reading about partial defences to murder is not what I thought I'd enjoy doing. I do, however, appreciate the capacity to surprise myself. (Though unsurprised I am hooked by the different philosophies of provocation!) 010
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Part payment *plus* a 'horse, a hawk, or a robe' makes perfect sense to me. It's the details that make the law memorable. Thanks Pinnel's Case. 010
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I was 99% joking in thinking my PhD on 18thC British property law and literature would be helpful in this life-change - and it's generally not. But every so often, an authority on a point of law will open a little window to that century and I get to be in that world for a little bit again. 📖♥️ 010
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Snagged every time by the points where the law uses history as a defence and vice versa. 010
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Sluggish day slogging a bit through tort law. Briefly sparkly coming across the phrase 'legal fiction', which was an important part of my previous life in 18thC literature. 📖🤓 010
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Answering SBAQs correctly is my new caffeine jolt. As well as actual caffeine ofc. 000
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Ooh I like contract law. So many little unfolding boxes. It's like a legal Fibonacci sequence. 010
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Interesting: tort law defined assault before there were statutes for these. Also 'tortfeasor', malfeasance, nonfeasance. The language of law continues to give. 000
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 20/01/2025...I was wrong. Having read about/thought about tort most of the weekend, it *is* fascinating. How do lawyers choose a specialism? Is that just a hold over from academia? 🤔 010
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 17/01/2025In spite of an energetic 4 1/2 minute presentation, my initial response to Tort Law remains...meh. 😕 Though as ever, I was briefly engaged by the *history* of Tort. 120
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Blackstone watch: vol 3 on hunting. Tho he did apparently include foxes as "ravenous beasts of prey" which is OTT, imho. Emotional stuff. 120
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Written out, in law reports & statutes, the law accomplishes that sleight of hand that makes it appear in the glamour of logic and reason. 020
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I know it's early in this journey but I kind of love reading legal cases. Today's terms were ratio decidendi and obiter dictum. 120
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Statutory interpretation has won my critical-reading, language-loving heart. Noscitur a sociis! Eiudem Generis! The Mischief Rule! Presumptions! 120
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Feoffment, amercement, allodial title. The lexical results of a morning coffee + casual reading on the history of land law. Also the following dates: 1267, 1677, 1925. 020
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Semester 1: Tort, criminal law, contracts, and ELS & Constitutional Law. 020
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 03/01/2025PGdL course starts next week; I'm half-anxious, half-excited, deep into prep-reading and already have a million article ideas - which is my process after 15 years as an academic... 120
LexReturna @lexreturna.bsky.social · 30/12/2024In January 2024, I decided to leave academia; in October, I decided to start again in law - conversion course starts almost one year to the day of my decision. New year; really new year. 140