Constitutional Law - Tutition

mstq

Howdy

So I got an exam on tuesday for constitutional law (interpretation), which I'm surely gona fail.

As I need to pass the subject I will need to undertake summer repeats (duh!).

So I would be looking for a tutor on this subject.
Any ideas what could be the price that for that?

Tom Young

Is this in advance of the exam?

mstq

Yes. I'd be looking to have some in april (before may's exams) and july (before winter exam repeats).

I don't have to be good at it... i just have to pass it.

Tom Young

http://www.legaltutors.eu/

mstq

Expensish if i keep in mind the idea of needing probably like 30-40 hours. Yet again hiring a student will come up better :]

Tom Young

Why don't you read the book and study up. You've plenty of time. You will pay a minimum of 30 Euro per hour for grinds .. minimum.

mstq

I find this very problematic.

In eg. Tort or Contract law it's all based on actuall cases. You might say that constitutional law is more or less similar, but then I'd ask "Well, so why did they give this judgment, instead of the other? Why didn't they agree?" etc.

I find this particular subject very confusing and hard. Nor it is interesting in any sort of way, nor usable (in my point of view, and as i want to be a legal expert in "computer law" (IT Law), I will not need to know what excuse did the judge make up for not building travelers site instead of simply saying "GTFO >_> ").

Big issue is the lecturer him self. He NEVER make a deffinite point. Maybe a, b, c, d, ...
He also skipped couple of subjects ( "Courts and criminal matters" ) as well as only briefly talked about ECHR. And at the end of the year he was like "well, we got 5 lectures to go, but we got nothing to study...".
We never did any case law in particular.

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Lecturer wrote:

As I said, the exam can only reflect what we go through in class or what I tell you to look independently.

So if we didn't go through cases in-class nor the told us to actually read over them, BUT they are contained in our class handout (130pages) as a citation at the bottom of the page, which often happends to actually start at around half of the page... can he say "well, you should've read over them"?
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Would you know maybe some good -short article on seperation of powers in ireland, maybe something from "... for dummies" series?

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mstq wrote: »

I find this very problematic.

In eg. Tort or Contract law it's all based on actuall cases. You might say that constitutional law is more or less similar, but then I'd ask "Well, so why did they give this judgment, instead of the other? Why didn't they agree?" etc.

I find this particular subject very confusing and hard. Nor it is interesting in any sort of way, nor usable (in my point of view, and as i want to be a legal expert in "computer law" (IT Law), I will not need to know what excuse did the judge make up for not building travelers site instead of simply saying "GTFO >_> ").

Big issue is the lecturer him self. He NEVER make a deffinite point. Maybe a, b, c, d, ...
He also skipped couple of subjects ( "Courts and criminal matters" ) as well as only briefly talked about ECHR. And at the end of the year he was like "well, we got 5 lectures to go, but we got nothing to study...".
We never did any case law in particular.

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So if we didn't go through cases in-class nor the told us to actually read over them, BUT they are contained in our class handout (130pages) as a citation at the bottom of the page, which often happends to actually start at around half of the page... can he say "well, you should've read over them"?
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Would you know maybe some good -short article on seperation of powers in ireland, maybe something from "... for dummies" series?

I'm having the same issues (bar the skipping topics) with my lecturer however I reckon it's more to do with the indefinite nature of the subject rather than him being at fault. Try having your answers like that (indefinite) for the exam if you're unsure about the topic... it seems to expose you to less mark-docking as you're not committing to a wrong answer.

The "you should have read over them" thing - yes he can and probably will. I've realised that and I'm only in 1st year.

Maybe send an email asking him if the topics he skipped are examinable. I had to do the same for my criminal exam this week, got a no which I was pleased with.

For separation of powers I found Oran Doyle's book very handy and clear, if a bit lengthy.

BarbsN

Put an ad up in your uni/law dept or whatever asking for private tutorials. A postgrad student will only be too happy to give you tuition and might not be too expensive. For interpretation, Hardiman J in Sinnott used several types of interpretation; Oran Doyle has a great article (not the cases and commentary textbook - although this is a good textbook for constitutional law) that explains Hardimans approach really well. It should be in your Library; google it!