As a law school professor in Cologne, what do you do when your students can’t seem to remember paragraph 823 of the civil-law code? If you’re Klaus Peter Berger, you set it to music and rap about it . My favorite couplet has to be:
Für den Zurechnungszusammenhang
kommt es dann auf den Schutzbereich an
A twenty-three letter word worked into a rap about law? Wow. My respect for the German language grows everyday.
And it gets better. Tim Drygala, another German law school professor, isn’t happy with Herr Berger’s rhymes and has laid down a few of his own:
Lieber Kollege, Ihr Rap ist zu banal,
er verfehlt die Probleme doch fatal.
Make sure to listen to the nerdy thing yourself.
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…
The Possibility of Possibility
"Might could” is a Southern expression meaning “maybe I could” or “I might be able to,” conveying…
The False Promise of No Contact
Around the time nineteen-year-old Alice began cutting ties with her family, she announced on social media that…