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StephenRushinFirstPaper 6 - 24 Aug 2009 - Main.EbenMoglen
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< | After Spring Break, I took a cab from LaGuardia? to Morningside Heights. During the trip, I had a conversation with a taxi driver named Carlos. After exchanging pleasantries, Carlos asked what I was studying at Columbia. “Law,” I replied, to which he responded, “You know, what you do and what I do isn’t really that different. I offer a service: I drive people around for money. You? You are going to offer a service, too. You will screw up someone’s life for money. Lots of money.” | >
> | After Spring Break, I took a cab from LaGuardia to Morningside Heights. During the trip, I had a conversation with a taxi driver named Carlos. After exchanging pleasantries, Carlos asked what I was studying at Columbia. “Law,” I replied, to which he responded, “You know, what you do and what I do isn’t really that different. I offer a service: I drive people around for money. You? You are going to offer a service, too. You will screw up someone’s life for money. Lots of money.” | | | When I first read Holmes’s Path of Law, I was reluctant to accept the functionalist view of the legal profession. I believed that there was inherently more to the study of law than predicting, “the incidence of the public force through the instrumentality of the courts.” But as I have come to accept, Holmes’s views in Path of Law are extremely useful; law is a predictive exercise that involves the imposition of logical structures to legitimize, “inarticulate and unconscious judgments.” Rather than limiting the practice of law, this view empowers lawyers. | | | “You know I drive this cab cause like it. Some people think I’m crazy, but screw ‘em,” he said with a smile.
“But, if you decide to do one of those big paying law jobs, do me a favor. You look like a nice guy... Remember my name and send me whatever money you aren’t gonna use. Consider it charity.”
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