I am confident that next year will be rich in events and opportunities. I would like to thank the Dean's office, the Faculty, the Administration, the CLSS and the students for the positive support I have enjoyed in the last two years. Lastly, I sincerely hope that Michel Bisson, who will take over the reins of Observations, finds the experience as rewarding as I have. As some of you may already know, since September 2000, I have been studying the Spanish civil law in Barcelona, Spain. The following is an overview of my exchange experience.
Students here write a general university admission exam after their final year of high school.
There is no LSAT, no application or special requirements to meet. The law school as an autonomous entity isn't really that autonomous since there is no special selection process. Thus, the first year of law is also first year of university. There are many classes covering the same subject. For instance, instead of 2 in English Common Law, there would be 5, and that's just in the morning schedule.