Back to Teaching

So tomorrow I'm teaching a class on the history of the American Women's Rights movement to a group of Burmese refugees.

My supervisors say my opus is complete. It's currently over 24 pages, including footnotes. A description of all the mechanisms of the Burmese judicial system, as best as I could understand them from the few Engligh-language sources available and interviews with colleagues who speak extremely broken English. But I'm trying to put it all in a theoretical context and use my miniscule understanding of constitutional law to suggest changes to the system for a new Constitution. And citing practices that other countries use for judicial appointments and removal. I'd like to try to get it published, but I'm also enjoying it purely as a writing and research exercise.

And, while I admire their English-speaking skills of my co-workers and respect their hard work to learn the language, that's not the sort of writing they can give me any feedback on. So if any of my law school classmates (or anyone else reading this) is extremely bored, could you give it a read and tell me what you think?

With the opus complete, I technically have time to prepare a 3-hour class on the history of women's rights. And last night, when Eric was trying to find someone else to take it, I volunteered. Who knows when I'll have another chance to teach?

So today I'm happily searching the Internet for primary source documents and political cartoons. Visiting my old familiar web haunts, remembering the thrill of watching a great lesson come together ... and trying to remember why I left it to go to law school.