#law dissertation

[reycurtis7]

I'm a final year law student currently working on my dissertation which is on International Law. I will be so glad to share my experiences here even though this is my first time on this app. I will also appreciate any assistance, opinion and support from anyone here. Thank you so much as I look forward to a wonderful experience.

[competitively-yours]

Matcha lattes and coffee go hand-in-hand with dissertation prep. I genuinely have no idea what I'm doing, but surely I'll figure out at some point.

[c4mpbutch]

29/3/23

[fatehbaz]

On May 28, 1914, the Institut für Schiffs-und Tropenkrankheiten (Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases, ISTK) in Hamburg began operations in a complex of new brick buildings on the bank of the Elb. The buildings were designed by Fritz Schumacher, who had become the Head of Hamburg’s building department (Leiter des Hochbauamtes) in 1909 after a “flood of architectural projects” accumulated following the industrialization of the harbor in the 1880s and the “new housing and working conditions” that followed. The ISTK was one of these projects, connected to the port by its [...] mission: to research and heal tropical illnesses; [...] to support the Hamburg Port [...]; and to support endeavors of the German Empire overseas.

First established in 1900 by Bernhard Nocht, chief of the Port Medical Service, the ISTK originally operated out of an existing building, but by 1909, when the Hamburg Colonial Institute became its parent organization (and Schumacher was hired by the Hamburg Senate), the operations of the ISTK had outgrown [...]. [I]ts commission by the city was an opportunity for Schumacher to show how he could contribute to guiding the city’s economic and architectural growth in tandem, and for Nocht, an opportunity to establish an unprecedented spatial paradigm for the field of Tropical Medicine that anchored the new frontier of science in the German Empire. [...]

[There was a] shared drive to contribute to the [...] wealth of Hamburg within the context of its expanding global network [...]. [E]ach discipline [...] architecture and medicine were participating in a shared [...] discursive operation. [...]

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The brick used on the ISTK façades was key to Schumacher’s larger Städtebau plan for Hamburg, which envisioned the city as a vehicle for a “harmonious” synthesis between aesthetics and economy. [...] For Schumacher, brick [was significantly preferable] [...]. Used by [...] Hamburg architects [over the past few decades], who acquired their penchant for neo-gothic brickwork at the Hanover school, brick had both a historical presence and aesthetic pedigree in Hamburg [...]. [T]his material had already been used in Die Speicherstadt, a warehouse district in Hamburg where unequal social conditions had only grown more exacerbated [...]. Die Speicherstadt was constructed in three phases [beginning] in 1883 [...]. By serving the port, the warehouses facilitated the expansion and security of Hamburg’s wealth. [...] Yet the collective profits accrued to the city by these buildings [...] did not increase economic prosperity and social equity for all. [...] [A] residential area for harbor workers was demolished to make way for the warehouses. After the contract for the port expansion was negotiated in 1881, over 20,000 people were pushed out of their homes and into adjacent areas of the city, which soon became overcrowded [...]. In turn, these [...] areas of the city [...] were the worst hit by the Hamburg cholera epidemic of 1892, the most devastating in Europe that year. The 1892 cholera epidemic [...] articulated the growing inability of the Hamburg Senate, comprising the city’s elite, to manage class relationships [...] [in such] a city that was explicitly run by and for the merchant class [...].

In Hamburg, the response to such an ugly disease of the masses was the enforcement of quarantine methods that pushed the working class into the suburbs, isolated immigrants on an island, and separated the sick according to racial identity.

In partnership with the German Empire, Hamburg established new hygiene institutions in the city, including the Port Medical Service (a progenitor of the ISTK). [...] [T]he discourse of [creating the school for tropical medicine] centered around city building and nation building, brick by brick, mark by mark.

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Just as the exterior condition of the building was, for Schumacher, part of a much larger plan for the city, the program of the building and its interior were part of the German Empire and Tropical Medicine’s much larger interest in controlling the health and wealth of its nation and colonies. [...]

Yet the establishment of the ISTK marked a critical shift in medical thinking [...]. And while the ISTK was not the only institution in Europe to form around the conception and perceived threat of tropical diseases, it was the first to build a facility specifically to support their “exploration and combat” in lockstep, as Nocht described it.

The field of Tropical Medicine had been established in Germany by the very same journal Nocht published his overview of the ISTK. The Archiv für Schiffs- und Tropen-Hygiene unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Pathologie und Therapie was first published in 1897, the same year that the German Empire claimed Kiaochow (northeast China) and about two years after it claimed Southwest Africa (Namibia), Cameroon, Togo, East Africa (Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda), New Guinea (today the northern part of Papua New Guinea), and the Marshall Islands; two years later, it would also claim the Caroline Islands, Palau, Mariana Islands (today Micronesia), and Samoa (today Western Samoa).

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The inaugural journal [...] marked a paradigm shift [...]. In his opening letter, the editor stated that the aim of Tropical Medicine is to “provide the white race with a home in the tropics.” [...]

As part of the institute’s agenda to support the expansion of the Empire through teaching and development [...], members of the ISTK contributed to the Deutsches Kolonial Lexikon, a three-volume series completed in 1914 (in the same year as the new ISTK buildings) and published in 1920. The three volumes contained maps of the colonies coded to show the areas that were considered “healthy” for Europeans, along with recommended building guidelines for hospitals in the tropics. [...] "Natives" were given separate facilities [...]. The hospital at the ISTK was similarly divided according to identity. An essentializing belief in “intrinsic factors” determined by skin color, constitutive to Tropical Medicine, materialized in the building’s circulation. Potential patients were assessed in the main building to determine their next destination in the hospital. A room labeled “Farbige” (colored) - visible in both Nocht and Schumacher’s publications - shows that the hospital segregated people of color from whites. [...]

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Despite belonging to two different disciplines [medicine and architecture], both Nocht and Schumacher’s publications articulate an understanding of health [...] that is linked to concepts of identity separating white upper-class German Europeans from others. [In] Hamburg [...] recent growth of the shipping industry and overt engagement of the German Empire in colonialism brought even more distant global connections to its port. For Schumacher, Hamburg’s presence in a global network meant it needed to strengthen its local identity and economy [by purposefully seeking to showcase "traditional" northern German neo-gothic brickwork while elevating local brick industry] lest it grow too far from its roots. In the case of Tropical Medicine at the ISTK, the “tropics” seemed to act as a foil for the European identity - a constructed category through which the European identity could redescribe itself by exclusion [...].

What it meant to be sick or healthy was taken up by both medicine and architecture - [...] neither in a vacuum.

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All text above by: Carrie Bly. "Mediums of Medicine: The Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg". Sick Architecture series published by e-flux Architecture. November 2020. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Text within brackets added by me for clarity. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[mueritos]

i have to find someone from outside my university to be on my examination panel for my project (basically like a dissertation defense) but the urge to email kate bornstein, gayle rubin, and alison bechdel on the rare chance they agree to be on my panel is sooo strong but also sooo daunting

[theycancelledhim]

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[ghlawstudent]

4.04.2023

Studying: Procedural law/Adjective law

P.s.: i got feedback on my provisional thesis last week and it was really good! I was pleasantly suprised bc when i handed it in, i wasn't really confident if i was going the right direction.

But the professor said it was one of the best dissertations he was supervising this year! I nearly fainted in my seat then and there ♡•♡

He gave me a few more tips to elevate it to a higher level but i was so happy omg...

I need to hand in the final version in May. So i got a bit of time left.

[acertainidontknowwhat]

Petronius’ Satyrica has an uncomfortable scene that involves a mock wedding, or perhaps anti-wedding, between a girl no older than 7, named Pannychis, and a young man of 16, named Giton that is followed by a possible consummation.

Under Roman law this would be illegal; the minimum age that a Roman girl could become engaged to marry was 10 and even then under Augustan law she would be required to wait two more years, making 12 the accepted minimum age at which a marriage could take place. This is not to say that 12 was the common age of marriage for Roman girls, just the earliest allowed age by law.

But why would Petronius depict a 7 year old girl here? I don’t think it is a coincidence that Pannychis’ age is exactly within the age range when a young girl would be chosen to become a Vestal Virgin, between the ages of 6 and 10. This fits with the religious atmosphere of the scene involving the priestess of Priapus, Quartilla, as she conducts her ritualistic orgy that was prefaced as required for the atonement of a sacrilege. Quartilla says that it is the perfect time for Quartilla to be “devirginatur”, and thus, perhaps, become initiated as a priestess of Priapus herself, which is the exact opposite of the Vestals who remained chaste for their 30 years of service. The act of selecting a Vestal Virgin was called “captio”, the girl was ceremonially taken from her family to become a Vestal Virgin, whereas here it is Pannychis’ virginity that is “capta”.

Lastly, Pannychis’ name means “all-nighter” which while it can be interpreted as sexually suggestive can refer to the role of a Vestal as one who keeps vigil over the eternal flame and sacra (sacred items) in the temple of Vesta.

Petronius is no stranger to parody in the Satyrica, but making a travesty of the rites of the cult of Vesta, whose task it was to protect the eternal flame of Vesta which signified Rome’s preeminence as long as it burned, is one of the more daring parodies. Even more daring because the Vestals became closely connected with the emperor Augustus in 12 BCE when he became the chief priest of the Roman state, pontifex maximus. Instead of moving into the home traditionally reserved for the pontifex maximus, Augustus broke centuries of tradition by instead building a public shrine of Vesta inside his home on the Palatine hill, possibly containing some of the sacra from the temple of Vesta in the Roman forum, and thus the religious cult most associated with the safety of Rome was now under Augustus’ own roof. The safety of Rome now became connected directly with Augustus and the Vestals became more and more involved with the ritual acts associated with the domus Augusti (the house of Augustus).

[helenreads28]

I haven't forgotten any of you, or the story guys. I'm still writing it, but life has been getting even more hectic. I am so damn close to graduating though. I just need to finish writing my dissertation and pass ONE SUBJECT, ONE. I somehow managed to pass most of my exams except this one and two selectives, but I only need this one to graduate 😭

ALSO

My little brother got into LAW SCHOOL everyone 🥹😍 I'm so proud of him🥹😭

[llycaons]

I'm not even that mad that atla won because it's a popularity contest and rgu is known by simply fewer people/is more surreal and compex and harder to get into, but the older I get the more I resent atla fans for the claims that it's perfect...it was simply not that good

[reelaround-deactivated05312024]

La politique démontre avec trop d’évidence qu’elle considère les hommes comme une simple collection d’objets : alors que Sade exige autour de lui un univers peuplé d’existants singuliers ; le « mal » dont il avait fait son refuge s’évanouit quand le crime est revendiqué par la vertu ; la Terreur, qui s’exerce avec bonne conscience, constitue la plus radicale négation du monde démoniaque de Sade.

Faut-il brûler Sade?, Simone de Beauvoir

[dakotalawyer]

T minus 44 hours til my dissertation is due, and this is the situation:

Second draft completed ✅

Now writing up my final version from the second version, one chapter at a time. Copying and pasting one paragraph at a time and making edits accordingly

Then I need to do my footnotes so far. Thankfully I have written them as I go along, there are just some areas where I need to add the footnote in and some where the footnote needs checking

My Queer History chapter is incomplete 😩 I stopped writing it part way through about a week ago bc I wanted it to be perfect and it was delaying the rest from being written. So I need to pick up where I left off and finish summarising the legislation

Need a significant amount of discussion and original thought added to the Queer History chapter. Max word count is gonna be around 2000 words for the full chapter, so probably maximum time this will take should be around 4 hours, given what I already have.

Slightly more original commentary needed around my case studies. In writing my final version, this may happen naturally (point two), so chances are there won't be too much left to add when I get to this point

Then I'll go over every sticky note that's accumulated in my room during the diss writing period because whenever I've had a random thought I Do Not Want To Forget, it's ended up on a note. So I'll go through all of them to see if any of The Thoughts were good enough to still be valid and needed

Conclusion and Intro babey!! I have versions already written up, but will likely need to re-jig and add to these

Final footnote check! And copy + paste it all into a bibliography

Check there's no highlight or notes to self left on the document, check all chapters are there, check my contents page adds up, page numbers, font, sizing, spacing etc etc

Acknowledgements :') I can't wait to write these, so I'm leaving it to the end as a reward. Omg I'm so excited :D

Then I can submit it!! It's a lot of work and I'm going to be at this for the next 2 days with little snack and sleep breaks, but I just know it'll all be so so worth it in the end :)

[ikkaku-of-heart]

@cxnsolatio​ asked: Inbox me a ‘ღ’ and I’ll rate (...), He just needs to hear about how handsome he is. Mind you, he demands nothing shorter of a school essay.

Inbox me a ‘ღ’ and I’ll rate you with the following (Still Accepting!)

Romantic attraction: none | very low | low | medium | high | very high | extreme Sexual attraction: none | very low | low | medium | high | very high | extreme   Aesthetic attraction: none | very low | low | medium | high | very high | extreme   Sensual attraction: none | very low | low | medium | high | very high | extreme  

"Ahem. Law is the most handsome, gorgeous man on the planet. He’s perfection incarnate when it comes to looks, cunning, book smarts, and style. Truly, he was put on this planet to shame lesser men for not putting in the effort to reach his level. He’s a man who makes sleep deprivation and the macabre look runway-worthy. His voice can make even the driest literature worth listening to - I know this from experience. He looks good in a hoodie and jeans, in a suit, and in his lab coat. He is truly the most magnificent of men and everyone else is second-rate standing next to him. I will gladly sing his praises all day!”

[c4mpbutch]

Struggling to focus today. The libraries are closed all of the long weekend which I wasn’t expecting, but luckily our lodger moved out earlier this week so I have the second bedroom as a wfh space. I find it so hard to stay on task at home where theres so much to distract me, but hopefully I’ll settle into it over the next few days. 

7/4/23

[violentdevotion]

someone sent me a video about the four wives thing and i made the mistake of reading the comments and I never want to leave my bed again