Law in Contemporary Society

View   r9  >  r8  ...
ToBeAGoodLawyer 9 - 25 Jan 2008 - Main.JesseCreed
Line: 1 to 1
 
META TOPICPARENT name="WebPreferences"
"It takes two things to be a good lawyer: you have to know exactly what you want and you have to know exactly how to get it."
Line: 43 to 43
 I also cleaned Theodore's broken link. -- JustinColannino - 24 Jan 2008
Added:
>
>		This course often reminds me of this theater review in the New York Times on a recent play - or five plays within a play - written by the great contemporary American playwright, Will Eno. The reviewer summarizes the important message of the play: "I’m a kveller, obviously. I am moved by Mr. Eno’s conviction that inside the skins of normal folk — a high school coach, an airline spokeswoman, a man and a woman at a video dating service — live exhausted existentialists and hopeful dreamers, people whose souls would speak more eloquently than their tongues, if given the chance." What I consider Eben's promise to us is to reveal what our souls would say "more eloquently than our tongues" and empower our tongues to say it instead, to give us the courage to dismantle the social forces and institutional pressures suppressing and concealing what our souls want to say and do. The "good" is whatever your soul has to say; avoiding its suppression, I think, is our mission in this class. Personally, I do not like the word "duty" - to me it recalls too much how Frau Goebbels fulfilled her 'duty' by killing her five children as the Soviets were entering Berlin for utter fear that they may grow up in a 'corrupt' and 'impure' world without National Socialism; but, to which we should all aspire stand intellectual courage and mental strength. -- JesseCreed - 25 Jan 2008
 
 
<--/commentPlugin-->

Revision 9r9 - 25 Jan 2008 - 03:38:46 - JesseCreed
Revision 8r8 - 25 Jan 2008 - 02:15:53 - AndrewGradman
This site is powered by the TWiki collaboration platform.
All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors.
All material marked as authored by Eben Moglen is available under the license terms CC-BY-SA version 4.
Syndicate this site RSSATOM