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LawSchoolasTrainingforHierarchy 11 - 08 Feb 2012 - Main.JessicaWirth
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I found this account of the law school experience by Professor Duncan Kennedy of Harvard Law to be relevant to our discussions in class, thought I’d share. | | | | |
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< | I appreciate the kinds of questions Eben is encouraging us to ask, but I'm not angry enough or skeptical enough at the law school system or at this particular law school to do so (at least not yet). I was trying to figure out why this is, when other people on the class board are clearly starting down the path of critically evaluating what law school is actually giving them and what they're getting out of it. Thinking about it, one explanation for why I feel this way, as opposed to angry or cynical or ready to agitate for change, is that I'm conditioned to participating in an education system and economy that has always treated me this way. | >
> | I appreciate the kinds of questions Eben is encouraging us to ask, but I'm not angry enough or skeptical enough at the law school system or at this particular law school to do so (at least not yet). I was trying to figure out why this is, when other people on the class board are clearly starting down the path of critically evaluating what law school is actually giving them and what they're getting out of it. Thinking about it, one explanation for why I feel this way, as opposed to angry or cynical or ready to agitate for change, is that I'm conditioned to participating in an education system and economy that has always treated me this way. | | | At my liberal arts university, we were expected to (and I was required by my major to) take unpaid internships to "round out" our educations and make us marketable for jobs. Why weren't we marketable to begin with, as a very function of being students at that "top ten" university, and why did the university perpetuate a system that is so inherently unfair to who couldn't afford to work for a summer without getting paid? I then worked for two years at a think tank, but was told repeatedly that I would not be able to promote up to a more substantive position without going to graduate school. It seems a pretty common theme amongst my friends, but I allow that there's some homogeneity in that group, that graduate school is necessary to get to the next step in our careers and do the kind of work we want to do. | |
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< | I guess I've just come to expect or believe that I have to pay my dues in various ways and that this is just the way "the system" works. I'm sure that there are other factors playing in to why I'm not incensed (I tend to be fairly risk-averse, I don't actually feel like I have time or energy to care about the "big picture" right now) but mostly, I just accept the way things are. I understand that revolutions don't often happen when people are willing to accept their own exploitation, but I actually can't see an alternative. | >
> | I guess I've just come to expect or believe that I have to pay my dues in various ways and that this is just the way "the system" works. I'm sure that there are other factors playing in to why I'm not incensed (I tend to be fairly risk-averse, I don't actually feel like I have time or energy to care about the "big picture" right now) but mostly, I just accept the way things are. I understand that revolutions don't often happen when people are willing to accept their own exploitation, but maybe I'm just resigned to it because I have been for a long time. | | | -- JessicaWirth - 06 Feb 2012 |
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