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 6, 2011
WHAT TO READ SO AS TO AVOID GRADING COMMERCIAL LAW EXAMS
Charles Wright, Black Zodiac: Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997)(From the title poem: "The unexamined life's no different from the examined life--/ Unanswerable questions, small talk, / Unprovable theorems, long-abandoned arguments-- / You've got to write it all down. / Landscape or waterscape, light-length on evergreen, dark sidebar / Of evening, / you've got to write it down." Id. at 65.).