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Why Return to Law School

-- By DanielRosenfeld - 09 Mar 2017

In this essay, I will explain why I will return to law school for my 2L year.

Section I: (A Lack of) A Theory of Justice

On the first day of class, maybe even last semester, Eben told us that he knew of only two reasons to come back to law school next year. He said that the only two reasons that he knew of were loving justice and/or hating injustice. There could be more, but he knew of only those two.

I’ll admit, those words kind of freaked me out. I’m 23 years old. I have no idea what justice or injustice are. Some people my age might know what they are, but, with my limited lived experience, I surely do not.

Personally, I think that justice and injustice, if they exist, are probably experiential knowledge, not theoretical. One has to experience justice and injustice to know their true nature. It is one thing to think that it is wrong to intentionally kill another person. It is another thing entirely to have done it. In self-defense? To protect someone else? In rage? For your own gain?

I’m only 23 years old and I don’t have a lot of the experiential knowledge that I think ought to in order to inform my view of justice and injustice. I think (and hope) that as I move through life, I will acquire such knowledge. Until then, love of justice or hate of injustice won’t provide sufficient reasons for me to return in August.

Section II: Why Come Back to Law School?

I’m coming back to school next year because I think being a lawyer will help me achieve Eudaemonia.

Eudaemonia, a Greek word loosely translated as “human flourishing,” is about living the best life one can. The basic idea is that people live their best life by doing the thing they are best at and getting better at it. People who are best suited to be teachers achieve by being a teacher and people who are best suited to be lawyers achieve it by being lawyers. Furthermore, one must work to achieve “excellence” in one’s field. I suspect that I can achieve a eudaimon life through law.

Before I do a job, I can’t know if I’ll like it or not. However, so far, law school has made me think that I will like being a lawyer. I’ve enjoyed law school more than any other school experience I’ve had so far. I’ve progressively enjoyed school more as the complexity has increased. Law school, if nothing else, is complex.

I understand that law school is very different from being a lawyer. I want to be careful to state that what I like about law school is essential to law, not the part essential to being a student. If I liked the short days, the sitting in class, or the freedom to center my education around my interests, I’d be worried.

Instead, what I like about law school has been the intellectual puzzle solving as well as the challenge of learning new material and integrating it into what I already know. I think the fact that what I like about law school will feed into what law practice consists of bodes well.

Law practice, to me, is using my license to achieve outcomes for my clients, whether that be a private citizen or the state. I’ll have to use my training, my knowledge, my experience, my creativity, and my judgment to obtain my client’s outcome. That will require thoughtfulness, ingenuity, and creativity.

Again, before I’ve actually done it, I can’t know for certain, but my experience in law school thus far has made me think that I will achieve my best human life through the experience of becoming a lawyer and my efforts to become the best lawyer I can. My skillset, preferences, and personality all seem to point me in this direction and my experience this year has only confirmed what I previously had thought: that I would enjoy being a lawyer.

Section III: (On Developing) A Theory of Justice

Part I of this paper doesn’t argue that justice and injustice are unimportant to me, just that they are unknown to me. As a lawyer, I understand that I will have immense power over other people’s lives- to improve them, or to really mess them up. Especially if I continue in my desired path of criminal justice law, knowledge of justice will prove critical.

Furthermore, merely liking the tasks of a lawyer isn’t protection against becoming a person who is a net-negative on society. I want to be a lawyer who makes society a better place.

The question then becomes how to acquire knowledge of justice. Since I don’t know what justice is, how can I know when I’ve found it? I have to hope that I’ll “know it when I see it” or else the task is hopeless.

I suspect (but don’t know) that knowledge of justice and injustice are experiential. As one has just experiences or unjust experiences, or even sees/hears about justice and injustice one acquires knowledge of it. I have some already (I’ve seen a deranged narcissist become the most powerful man in the world) but nowhere near enough to say that I “know” what justice or injustice is.

This summer, I’m going to intern in a rural District Attorney’s office. There, I hope to get firsthand experience, to continue trying to learn what justice and injustice are.


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Furthermore, merely liking the tasks of a lawyer isn’t protection against becoming a person who is a net-negative on society. I want to be a lawyer who makes society a better place.
 The question then becomes how to acquire knowledge of justice. Since I don’t know what justice is, how can I know when I’ve found it? I have to hope that I’ll “know it when I see it” or else the task is hopeless.

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Section I: (A Lack of) A Theory of Justice

 On the first day of class, maybe even last semester, Eben told us that he knew of only two reasons to come back to law school next year. He said that the only two reasons that he knew of were loving justice and/or hating injustice. There could be more, but he knew of only those two.
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I’ll admit, those words kind of freaked me out because I have no idea what justice or injustice are. Most people might scoff and laugh- “Come on, Daniel- you really don’t know if slavery is unjust or not?”
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I’ll admit, those words kind of freaked me out. I’m 23 years old. I have no idea what justice or injustice are. Some people my age might know what they are, but, with my limited lived experience, I surely do not.
 
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However, the identity of (in)justice is unclear to me. How can I love or hate something if I don’t know what it is? I initially thought I knew at the extremes, but then I struggled to come up with clear examples of injustice. Even murder, depending on the context, can be “just” or “unjust” (self-defense vs. reckless killing). Outside of slavery and rape, I don’t know if there are clear examples of injustice that I think everyone could agree on.
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Personally, I think that justice and injustice, if they exist, are probably experiential knowledge, not theoretical. One has to experience justice and injustice to know their true nature. It is one thing to think that it is wrong to intentionally kill another person. It is another thing entirely to have done it. In self-defense? To protect someone else? In rage? For your own gain?
 
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As though we only knew what things "are" that everyone can agree on. What sort of argument is this?
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I’m only 23 years old and I don’t have a lot of the experiential knowledge that I think ought to in order to inform my view of justice and injustice. I think (and hope) that as I move through life, I will acquire such knowledge. Until then, love of justice or hate of injustice won’t provide sufficient reasons for me to return in August.
 
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That's injustice. Defining and finding justice in the world is impossible. Affirmative action? A progressive tax code? Blind grading? Rule of law? I could see all of these things being just or unjust, depending on one’s point of view.
 
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Surely, Eben doesn’t think that justice and injustice are completely subjective. I don't think that they are either. However, it is incontrovertible that there is sizable disagreement about what they are. Maybe it is just subjective,or maybe many/most of those people are wrong.
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Section II: Why Come Back to Law School?

 
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Why would either conclusion matter to one's pursuit of one's own career and life? Would one choose only the partners everyone else agreed on, "objectively"? Or the houses, religion, food? This gives the sense of an effort to use logic to avoid thinking.
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I’m coming back to school next year because I think being a lawyer will help me achieve Eudaemonia.
 
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Personally, I think that justice and injustice are probably experiential knowledge, not theoretical. One has to experience justice and injustice to know their true nature. It is one thing to think that it is wrong to intentionally kill another person. It is another thing to have done it. In self-defense? To protect someone else? In rage? For your own gain? I think the experience of doing such a morally gray act would shape my world view. I’m only 23, I’m confident that I don’t know what justice or injustice are, but I hope that I’ll learn as I experience the world.
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Eudaemonia, a Greek word loosely translated as “human flourishing,” is about living the best life one can. The basic idea is that people live their best life by doing the thing they are best at and getting better at it. People who are best suited to be teachers achieve by being a teacher and people who are best suited to be lawyers achieve it by being lawyers. Furthermore, one must work to achieve “excellence” in one’s field. I suspect that I can achieve a eudaimon life through law.
 
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In conclusion, loving justice or hating injustice are not going to provide me sufficient reasons to return to law school in the fall because I’m very uncertain what justice or injustice are. However, I still am going to return.
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Before I do a job, I can’t know if I’ll like it or not. However, so far, law school has made me think that I will like being a lawyer. I’ve enjoyed law school more than any other school experience I’ve had so far. I’ve progressively enjoyed school more as the complexity has increased. Law school, if nothing else, is complex.
 
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That wasn't described as a condition on returning, merely the two reasons for going to law school that have proved durable for people in my experience. Of course, other reasons have proved idiosyncratically durable for some people. And lots of bad reasons have resulted in return.
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I understand that law school is very different from being a lawyer. I want to be careful to state that what I like about law school is essential to law, not the part essential to being a student. If I liked the short days, the sitting in class, or the freedom to center my education around my interests, I’d be worried.
 
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Instead, what I like about law school has been the intellectual puzzle solving as well as the challenge of learning new material and integrating it into what I already know. I think the fact that what I like about law school will feed into what law practice consists of bodes well.
 
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Law practice, to me, is using my license to achieve outcomes for my clients, whether that be a private citizen or the state. I’ll have to use my training, my knowledge, my experience, my creativity, and my judgment to obtain my client’s outcome. That will require thoughtfulness, ingenuity, and creativity.
 
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Section II: The Consumption Value of Law School

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Again, before I’ve actually done it, I can’t know for certain, but my experience in law school thus far has made me think that I will achieve my best human life through the experience of becoming a lawyer and my efforts to become the best lawyer I can. My skillset, preferences, and personality all seem to point me in this direction and my experience this year has only confirmed what I previously had thought: that I would enjoy being a lawyer.
 
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It seems to me that Eben misses a crucial aspect of life in defining the purpose of returning to law school so narrowly. While he doesn’t rule out other reasons, he strongly hints that none exist. I’d like to posit that a third reason for returning to law school does exist. Consumption value.
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Section III: (On Developing) A Theory of Justice

 
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Simply put, I’ve enjoyed law school more than any other school experience I’ve had so far. I’ve progressively enjoyed school more as the complexity has increased. So far, I would say that law school has proved to be an immensely more complex task than almost any of my undergraduate classes.
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Part I of this paper doesn’t argue that justice and injustice are unimportant to me, just that they are unknown to me. As a lawyer, I understand that I will have immense power over other people’s lives- to improve them, or to really mess them up. Especially if I continue in my desired path of criminal justice law, knowledge of justice will prove critical.
 
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I’ve enjoyed learning doctrine, which answers everyday questions I’ve had (How can I get out of a form contract? How could I be evicted?). Further, I’ve appreciated doing meta-analysis on rules. Why are they are the rules ? What would be a better rule? What constitutes a better rule? What constitutes better?
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Furthermore, merely liking the tasks of a lawyer isn’t protection against becoming a person who is a net-negative on society. I want to be a lawyer who makes society a better place. I do love justice and hate injustice, but I just have no idea what they are.
 
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I’ve enjoyed being able to be creative with regards to law school academics (I’ll admit to not being creative at all in my approach to my career, which is one reason among many why I took this course). I’ve enjoyed trying to use the law I’ve learned to create wild scenarios (can the Wicked Witch of the East implead Dorothy to avenge her sister, assuming there is diversity jurisdiction?). Now that I have access to LexisNexis and Westlaw, I can research the answers to all the questions that I’ve wondered about (what are my rights to refuse to be searched by police?)
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The question then becomes how to acquire knowledge of justice. Since I don’t know what justice is, how can I know when I’ve found it? I have to hope that I’ll “know it when I see it” or else the task is hopeless.
 
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Of course, I can’t find the answers to those meta-questions on LexisNexis. For those, I need to rely on my peers. While lawyers generally get a bad rap, I’ve immensely enjoyed getting to know my classmates. To a person , they have proved to be brilliant, analytical, funny, and most importantly, always up for a discussion. Being able to have a rich, thoughtful discussion on almost any topic at any time of day is a true privilege- one that I won’t always have. In short- I really like law school, and it makes me be excited for being a lawyer.
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I suspect (but don’t know) that knowledge of justice and injustice are experiential. As one has just experiences or unjust experiences, or even sees/hears about justice and injustice one acquires knowledge of it. I have some already (I’ve seen a deranged narcissist become the most powerful man in the world) but nowhere near enough to say that I “know” what justice or injustice is.
 
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Section III: So What?

In this paper, I’m not arguing that loving justice or hating injustice aren’t good reasons to come to back for 2L. They are. I’m simply arguing that I think that I’ve found a third way forward.

I understand that law school is very different from being a lawyer. I want to be careful that what I like about law school is essential to law, not the part essential to being a student. If I liked the short days, the sitting in class, or the freedom to center my education around my interests, I’d be worried. I know that in the practice of law, lawyers don’t sit around talking about whatever they find interesting. Instead, they practice what clients will pay them for. However, I hope that I can creatively find a space where clients will pay me for work I find intellectually interesting, and where I can make things happen in society using words. Eventually, one day, if I figure out what the hell justice or injustice are, I will work towards those as well. For now, I’ll have to content myself with working towards knowing what they are.

Consumption value? If you have a bag of cash you otherwise don't know what to do with, then talking about the quality of conversation one gets in law school makes sense, in the same way that burning $100 bills to light your cigar makes sense. Going deeply into debt for consumption is questionable decision-making.

I think the primary purpose of this draft is to avoid asking any serious questions, and it is good for that. Indeed, for that purpose I don't know how to make it better. A different draft, explaining why after a year of law school it would seem intellectually valuable to you to spend so much effort pretending not to know anything about whether you love justice or hate injustice—now that would seem valuable to me. Why not, arguendo as it were, drop all that nonsense and address the question seriously: if you neither feel that you love seeking justice, nor that you are driven to eliminate injustice, why would you return to law school? Ars gratia artis, on the tab?

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This summer, I’m going to intern in a rural District Attorney’s office. There, I hope to get firsthand experience, to continue trying to learn what justice and injustice are.
 



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 However, the identity of (in)justice is unclear to me. How can I love or hate something if I don’t know what it is? I initially thought I knew at the extremes, but then I struggled to come up with clear examples of injustice. Even murder, depending on the context, can be “just” or “unjust” (self-defense vs. reckless killing). Outside of slavery and rape, I don’t know if there are clear examples of injustice that I think everyone could agree on.
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As though we only knew what things "are" that everyone can agree on. What sort of argument is this?

 That's injustice. Defining and finding justice in the world is impossible. Affirmative action? A progressive tax code? Blind grading? Rule of law? I could see all of these things being just or unjust, depending on one’s point of view.

Surely, Eben doesn’t think that justice and injustice are completely subjective. I don't think that they are either. However, it is incontrovertible that there is sizable disagreement about what they are. Maybe it is just subjective,or maybe many/most of those people are wrong.

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Why would either conclusion matter to one's pursuit of one's own career and life? Would one choose only the partners everyone else agreed on, "objectively"? Or the houses, religion, food? This gives the sense of an effort to use logic to avoid thinking.

 Personally, I think that justice and injustice are probably experiential knowledge, not theoretical. One has to experience justice and injustice to know their true nature. It is one thing to think that it is wrong to intentionally kill another person. It is another thing to have done it. In self-defense? To protect someone else? In rage? For your own gain? I think the experience of doing such a morally gray act would shape my world view. I’m only 23, I’m confident that I don’t know what justice or injustice are, but I hope that I’ll learn as I experience the world.

In conclusion, loving justice or hating injustice are not going to provide me sufficient reasons to return to law school in the fall because I’m very uncertain what justice or injustice are. However, I still am going to return.

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That wasn't described as a condition on returning, merely the two reasons for going to law school that have proved durable for people in my experience. Of course, other reasons have proved idiosyncratically durable for some people. And lots of bad reasons have resulted in return.

 

Section II: The Consumption Value of Law School

It seems to me that Eben misses a crucial aspect of life in defining the purpose of returning to law school so narrowly. While he doesn’t rule out other reasons, he strongly hints that none exist. I’d like to posit that a third reason for returning to law school does exist. Consumption value.

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 I’ve enjoyed learning doctrine, which answers everyday questions I’ve had (How can I get out of a form contract? How could I be evicted?). Further, I’ve appreciated doing meta-analysis on rules. Why are they are the rules ? What would be a better rule? What constitutes a better rule? What constitutes better?
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I’ve enjoyed being able to be creative with regards to law school academics (I’ll admit to not being creative at all in my approach to my career, which is one reason among many why I took this course). I’ve enjoyed trying to use the law I’ve learned to create wild scenarios (can the Wicked Witch of the East implead Dorothy to avenge her sister, assuming there is diversity jurisdiction?). Now that I have access to LexisNexis? and Westlaw, I can research the answers to all the questions that I’ve wondered about (what are my rights to refuse to be searched by police?)
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I’ve enjoyed being able to be creative with regards to law school academics (I’ll admit to not being creative at all in my approach to my career, which is one reason among many why I took this course). I’ve enjoyed trying to use the law I’ve learned to create wild scenarios (can the Wicked Witch of the East implead Dorothy to avenge her sister, assuming there is diversity jurisdiction?). Now that I have access to LexisNexis and Westlaw, I can research the answers to all the questions that I’ve wondered about (what are my rights to refuse to be searched by police?)
 
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Of course, I can’t find the answers to those meta-questions on LexisNexus? . For those, I need to rely on my peers. While lawyers generally get a bad rap, I’ve immensely enjoyed getting to know my classmates. To a person , they have proved to be brilliant, analytical, funny, and most importantly, always up for a discussion. Being able to have a rich, thoughtful discussion on almost any topic at any time of day is a true privilege- one that I won’t always have.
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Of course, I can’t find the answers to those meta-questions on LexisNexis. For those, I need to rely on my peers. While lawyers generally get a bad rap, I’ve immensely enjoyed getting to know my classmates. To a person , they have proved to be brilliant, analytical, funny, and most importantly, always up for a discussion. Being able to have a rich, thoughtful discussion on almost any topic at any time of day is a true privilege- one that I won’t always have.
 In short- I really like law school, and it makes me be excited for being a lawyer.
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 I understand that law school is very different from being a lawyer. I want to be careful that what I like about law school is essential to law, not the part essential to being a student. If I liked the short days, the sitting in class, or the freedom to center my education around my interests, I’d be worried. I know that in the practice of law, lawyers don’t sit around talking about whatever they find interesting. Instead, they practice what clients will pay them for. However, I hope that I can creatively find a space where clients will pay me for work I find intellectually interesting, and where I can make things happen in society using words. Eventually, one day, if I figure out what the hell justice or injustice are, I will work towards those as well. For now, I’ll have to content myself with working towards knowing what they are.
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Consumption value? If you have a bag of cash you otherwise don't know what to do with, then talking about the quality of conversation one gets in law school makes sense, in the same way that burning $100 bills to light your cigar makes sense. Going deeply into debt for consumption is questionable decision-making.

I think the primary purpose of this draft is to avoid asking any serious questions, and it is good for that. Indeed, for that purpose I don't know how to make it better. A different draft, explaining why after a year of law school it would seem intellectually valuable to you to spend so much effort pretending not to know anything about whether you love justice or hate injustice—now that would seem valuable to me. Why not, arguendo as it were, drop all that nonsense and address the question seriously: if you neither feel that you love seeking justice, nor that you are driven to eliminate injustice, why would you return to law school? Ars gratia artis, on the tab?

 
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In this essay, I will explain why I will return to law school for my 2L year.

Section I: Justice and Injustice

On the first day of class, maybe even last semester, Eben told us that he knew of only two reasons to come back to law school next year. He said that the only two reasons that he knew of were loving justice and/or hating injustice. There could be more, but he knew of only those two.

I’ll admit, those words kind of freaked me out because I have no idea what justice or injustice are. Most people might scoff and laugh- “Come on, Daniel- you really don’t know if slavery is unjust or not?”

However, the identity of (in)justice is unclear to me. How can I love or hate something if I don’t know what it is? I initially thought I knew at the extremes, but then I struggled to come up with clear examples of injustice. Even murder, depending on the context, can be “just” or “unjust” (self-defense vs. reckless killing). Outside of slavery and rape, I don’t know if there are clear examples of injustice that I think everyone could agree on.

That's injustice. Defining and finding justice in the world is impossible. Affirmative action? A progressive tax code? Blind grading? Rule of law? I could see all of these things being just or unjust, depending on one’s point of view.

Surely, Eben doesn’t think that justice and injustice are completely subjective. I don't think that they are either. However, it is incontrovertible that there is sizable disagreement about what they are. Maybe it is just subjective,or maybe many/most of those people are wrong.

Personally, I think that justice and injustice are probably experiential knowledge, not theoretical. One has to experience justice and injustice to know their true nature. It is one thing to think that it is wrong to intentionally kill another person. It is another thing to have done it. In self-defense? To protect someone else? In rage? For your own gain? I think the experience of doing such a morally gray act would shape my world view. I’m only 23, I’m confident that I don’t know what justice or injustice are, but I hope that I’ll learn as I experience the world.

In conclusion, loving justice or hating injustice are not going to provide me sufficient reasons to return to law school in the fall because I’m very uncertain what justice or injustice are. However, I still am going to return.

Section II: The Consumption Value of Law School

It seems to me that Eben misses a crucial aspect of life in defining the purpose of returning to law school so narrowly. While he doesn’t rule out other reasons, he strongly hints that none exist. I’d like to posit that a third reason for returning to law school does exist. Consumption value.

Simply put, I’ve enjoyed law school more than any other school experience I’ve had so far. I’ve progressively enjoyed school more as the complexity has increased. So far, I would say that law school has proved to be an immensely more complex task than almost any of my undergraduate classes.

I’ve enjoyed learning doctrine, which answers everyday questions I’ve had (How can I get out of a form contract? How could I be evicted?). Further, I’ve appreciated doing meta-analysis on rules. Why are they are the rules ? What would be a better rule? What constitutes a better rule? What constitutes better?

I’ve enjoyed being able to be creative with regards to law school academics (I’ll admit to not being creative at all in my approach to my career, which is one reason among many why I took this course). I’ve enjoyed trying to use the law I’ve learned to create wild scenarios (can the Wicked Witch of the East implead Dorothy to avenge her sister, assuming there is diversity jurisdiction?). Now that I have access to LexisNexis? and Westlaw, I can research the answers to all the questions that I’ve wondered about (what are my rights to refuse to be searched by police?)

Of course, I can’t find the answers to those meta-questions on LexisNexus? . For those, I need to rely on my peers. While lawyers generally get a bad rap, I’ve immensely enjoyed getting to know my classmates. To a person , they have proved to be brilliant, analytical, funny, and most importantly, always up for a discussion. Being able to have a rich, thoughtful discussion on almost any topic at any time of day is a true privilege- one that I won’t always have. In short- I really like law school, and it makes me be excited for being a lawyer.

Section III: So What?

In this paper, I’m not arguing that loving justice or hating injustice aren’t good reasons to come to back for 2L. They are. I’m simply arguing that I think that I’ve found a third way forward.

I understand that law school is very different from being a lawyer. I want to be careful that what I like about law school is essential to law, not the part essential to being a student. If I liked the short days, the sitting in class, or the freedom to center my education around my interests, I’d be worried. I know that in the practice of law, lawyers don’t sit around talking about whatever they find interesting. Instead, they practice what clients will pay them for. However, I hope that I can creatively find a space where clients will pay me for work I find intellectually interesting, and where I can make things happen in society using words. Eventually, one day, if I figure out what the hell justice or injustice are, I will work towards those as well. For now, I’ll have to content myself with working towards knowing what they are.


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