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.
April 21, 2011
THE GOOD OLD DAYS WERE NOT SO GREAT, THOUGH THEY MAY BE BETTER THAN THE PRESENT DAYS.
G. B. Trudeau, 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective (Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2010) ("So this anthology isn't about thee defining events of the last four decades. It is instead about how it felt to live through those years -- a loosely organized chronicle of modern times, as crowdsourced by what was once called 'the Doonesbury gang'." Id. at 8.).