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MattBurkeFirstEssay 4 - 06 Mar 2015 - Main.MattBurke
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<--_It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted._ --> | | | First, in the casebooks, that is first-in-time: The law student finds the law first-in-time in the casebooks in the bleary hours of the night. Or, since the law student prefers the ritual of falling asleep with his wife to that of reading late into the night, he finds the law first-in-time in casebooks in the bleary hours of the morning. He learns, in a red book about Civil Procedure, that casebooks do not contain law, they contain “evidence of the law.” Swift v. Tyson.
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< | Second, the student recalls a trial, the boy who shot up the student’s high school. The student remembers his parents’ divorce proceedings and his great-grandmother’s will—the two silver bars devised to the student’s mother when the student was four years old. But those are not the law. Where are the words? Only shot-gun pellets, alternating weekends, and silver bars. | >
> | Second, the student recalls a trial, the boy who shot up the student’s high school. The student remembers his parents’ divorce proceedings and his great-grandmother’s will—the two silver bars devised to the student’s mother when the student was four years old. But those are not the law. They are shot-gun shells, alternating weekends, and silver bars. | | |
Third, the student recalls a black-stone stele, carved in dead letters. The student notes the stele’s phallic shape. |
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