Osgoode News

A Spy in the House of Osgoode:
Cultural Learnings of Toronto for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Newfoundland

KYLE REES
Osgoode News Editor



Guys, I have a confession to make. And now that it’s the last issue of Obiter, I feel safe doing so. I have been, and am currently, a spy for the Newfoundland legal profession.

I’m serious.

I was sent to Osgoode on the orders of the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador as an ambassador for the Province, to boldly go where so many have gone before and failed to return. I was sent to both represent Newfoundland to the Far West and to gather information about your strange and foreign legal system to bring back to Newfoundland, so that it might profit from this knowledge.

I’m serious.

My tuition may have even been paid in exchange for this information. In fact, I may have not even been admitted to Osgoode until I was interviewed for this task by the Law Society. After months of silence and stonewalling whenever I called Admissions at Osgoode, I was mysteriously admitted the day after my interview with the NL Law Society.

I’m serious.

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DUTY TO WARN

Monday, March 19
The Osgoode Colloquium on Law, Religion & Social Thought
Time: 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Location: IKB 2027

Yoga at Osgoode
Time: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Location: IKB 3015

Tuesday, March 20
Nathanson Centre Lecture Counter-Terrorism in Canada: 10 years after 9/11 - Professor Ron Atkey
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Location: IKB 2003

Wednesday, March 21
Mandatory Information Session for First Year Students on Upper Year Course Selection
Time: 12:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Location: Moot Court

↑CDFY Presents: Preparing for the LSUC Lawyer Licensing Exams (presented by the Law Society of Upper Canada)
Time: 12:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Location: IKB 1001

Pre-Exam Massages
Time: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Location: Mixing Area, IKB 1102

Conversations on Work & Labour Speaker Series - Regulating Work: Between Universality & Selectivity by Prof. Guy Davidov
Time: 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Location: IKB 2027

"Green Growth: Entrepreneurship and Ethanol" and premiere screening of the film "FREEDOM"
Time: 05:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Location: Robert McEwan Auditorium, Schulich School of Business

Thursday, March 22
IP Osgoode Speaker Series: Copyright and the Music Industry featuring Robert Levine and Prof Brett Danaher
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Location: Moot Court, IKB 1005

Friday, March 23
Nathanson Centre Legal Philosophy Seminar Series - Michael Blake
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: IKB 2003

CFR/IFLS BOOK LAUNCH - "RECONSIDERING KNOWLEDGE"
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Location: Founders Senior Room, 305 Founders College

Editorial

The Soundtrack to My Law School Experience

This. is. it. Wow. 3 years ago, I started working for the Obiter Dicta, doing layout between classes, and it blows my mind that this is my last issue ever. It’s even crazier to me that my time at school is almost done. Like some of my fellow writers in this paper, I wanted to write a piece on my time at Osgoode Hall. You know, something reflective, that was also kind of funny and epic. But how do I sum up 3 years here? It seems only fitting, as a former Obiter music columnist (the Rock Snobs of the World Unite series from 2010 - 2011) that I sum up my time here via song. And so, I give to you dear reader, the soundtrack to my law school experience.

First Year: Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance”
Oh, first year. What an exciting, but mostly terrifying time. Maybe terrifying is too strong a word, but I was definitely wracked with anxiety for most of first year, particularly first year, first semester. It was an uneasy time. I was learning to do the work, was faced with an absurd amount of readings, and had no idea whether I was doing any of this law school thing “right”. As an aside, I know now that I’m not doing this whole law school thing right – you know, doing readings ahead of time, not cramming last second, not writing 30 page papers in a day – but I’m also cool with it.

Anyway, first year was an anxious time, but it was also a good time. By the time first year was over, I had made a ton of new friends. I picked Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” because I remember dancing my face off to that with some of my law buddies the last time I was ever at Dance Cave (oh how I miss you DC). It’s also an appropriate song because I had to tell myself a lot during first year, “it’s going to be okay… do do do do do, just dance.” And by dance, I meant “read my textbooks”.

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