Yesterday I attended a lecture quite unrelated to my regular studies for no other reason than amusement: Rechtssoziologie (sociology of law) by Fribourg's dynamic duo Niggli/Amstutz.
And it proved to be amusing indeed. The topic was Max Weber, although the two disgressed a lot while doing their lecture in a funny dialog, Niggli always interrupting his apparently good friend Amstutz.
In their dialectic style they talked e.g. about the dichotomies of rational/irrational and formal/material and demonstrated them using real cases (and lots of tongue-in-cheek remarks), explained how a decision of our supreme court, the Bundesgericht is plainly indistinguishable from magic.
All in all it was a worthwhile experience, the two young professors' teaching was great fun, though a bit chatty and redundant at times.
Anyway, I definitely should attend more of other faculties' lectures, the contrast to what I in everday's computer science courses was amazing: rhetoric is much more a part of their game, they seem to be much more confident in what they say than our average computer scientist, although it does not seem as if this difference is inherent to their subjects. Well, perhaps it's because the science of the jurisprudents is just much, much older.
So I hope to attend their lecture again next week, perhaps I'll even find the courage to ask the questions and doubts I had about their theories.. but that's a topic for another post.