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.
September 11, 2011
BOOK OF THE WEEK: WEEK THIRTY-SEVEN, 2011
Don DeLillo, Underworld (New York: Scribner, 1997) (See Michiko Katutani, "A Presceint Novel Retains Its Power," NYT, Friday, July 15, 2011, at C25: "A Decade after 9/11, it's worth rereading Don DeLillo's 1997 masterpiece, 'Underworld," to appreciate how uncannily the author not only captured the surreal weirdness of life in the second half of the 20th century but also anticipated America's lurch into terror and exigencies of the new millennium." Id.).