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Law school is teaching me to decompose a legal dispute into a million tiny pieces, consider each piece separately, and compose a resolution to the dispute which might be completely contrary to my intuitive sense of justice.
This rewiring is not pleasant.
This rewiring is not pleasant.
I like my old substantive ideas of justice - of how the world ought to be, and what the State ought and oughtn't do to remediate it.
I don't like the fact that I can now come to the exact opposite conclusions from my intuitions, coldly and quickly.
I don't like the fact that I can now come to the exact opposite conclusions from my intuitions, coldly and quickly.
As I get further into law school, I find myself able to answer legal questions without even awakening my intuitive sense of justice at all.
There is much about law school I enjoy - but at the same time, I feel it is wringing something Good out of me.
There is much about law school I enjoy - but at the same time, I feel it is wringing something Good out of me.
Law school teaches you how to win on technicalities. More interestingly, it teaches you it is *better* to win on technicalities.
e.g. your client is charged with a crime. Do you try to get the case dismissed on the statute of limitations (a technicality), or do you simply argue that your client is innocent? You first try the former. Technicalities are fast and easy ways to win.
