Ages ago, at my first-year law school orientation, my classmates were told "If you only know the law, then you do not know the law at all." I took the words to heart as I made my way through law school, through law practice and, now, into law teaching. The Cosmopolitan Lawyer lists readings, many non-law, which are influencing my thinking about law. It is my effort to be, and to encourage others to be, more cosmopolitan--and, thus, less parochial--in thinking about law.
October 2, 2010
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, The Time of Man (1926) (Lexington: U. of Kentucky Press, 2000) (" 'Law is a good thing but how you look at it makes a difference, and which side you're on, and how people look at what you done. Law is fine if you get on the good side of it. It's all owen to which part gets law on his side. But once you get it on the contrary side, why you might see a sight of worry from it.' " Id. at 293. " 'I aim to read books,' Dick said. 'There's more than a million books in the world and I've not read e'er one yet. I aim to know everything. I aim to read a heap of books. It's in books is found the wisdom of the world, they say.' " Id. at 370.)