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.
May 7, 2011
STILL PROCRASTINATING ABOUT GRADING THOSE COMMERCIAL LAW EXAMS
Mark Strand, Chicken, Shadow, Moon and More (New York: The Turtle Point Press, 2000) (From the poem "Shadow": "Even the brightest poem is haunted by shadows / The shadow of the mother, the shadow of the father / Shadows are robes the sun keeps dropping / Come back, lost shadows, syllables of midnight / To plead for a shadow is to plead for mercy . . ." Id. at 15.).