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NilePierreFirstPaper 3 - 15 May 2025 - Main.NilePierre
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What Happens Now | | | So how much is enough for me? I must be reaching my limit. I can't keep pretending like I don't see what's happening. I can't wait for the people who I perceived as having more power than me to take a stand. The truth is, most of them won't. They're scared too. They're protecting what they've worked for. We're all afraid of something, and we all answer to someone. | |
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< | But I can make small changes on my own. I'm figuring out what that looks like now. I don't have all the answers yet. But I do know that being silent is not going to protect me. Playing it safe hasn't made me feel any safer. So I'm starting to look at what I can do differently. I'm starting to reimagine what success might look like, and who I want to be in the face of fear. Maybe it starts with saying something. Maybe it starts with saying no. Maybe it starts with remembering that I'm not the only one paying attention.
I think this well expresses the internal monologue of a large number of students, who are individually reaching the point at which, if they could organize, something might happen in the short term. | >
> | Maybe what I need most right now from this school is how to use the concepts I'm taught in the classroom as tools to respond to what I'm observing around me. I want to learn how to use the law as a tool for advocacy, and I don't want that to be something saved for upper-year electives. I want that to be part of every 1L class. I want my Contracts class to show me how contracts are used to bind people, and how I can use that knowledge to help those who are bound to things that hurt them. I want Civil Procedure to show me how to help someone bring a pro bono case, how to actually help someone who cannot afford legal help. I want Criminal Law to help me understand why this country keeps criminalizing the most marginalized, and to learn how the law can be used to challenge that. I want more than theory from my professors, I want action items for me to capitalize on. | | | | |
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< | But our concern is rightly with your longer-term, with your professional education and the choices you make about how to use it. For that purpose, although the draft cannot be substantially improved, in my view, at expressing the development of your needs, it can be sharpened by asking what you need from the school. Moral and political leadership you are not getting, for sure. Unfortunately, we cannot expect that to develop. It is possible, however, to ask for what you need to be taught, and to expect that teachers will respond by trying to teach you. Some pointing of the next draft in that direction would be valuable, I think.
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> | But I can make small changes on my own. I'm figuring out what that looks like now. I don't have all the answers yet. But I do know that being silent is not going to protect me. Playing it safe hasn't made me feel any safer. So I'm starting to look at what I can do differently. I'm starting to reimagine what success might look like, and who I want to be in the face of fear. Maybe it starts with saying something. Maybe it starts with saying no. Maybe it starts with remembering that I'm not the only one paying attention. |
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