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BrandonReidFirstEssay 4 - 24 May 2023 - Main.EbenMoglen
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< | It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | Legal Education- A Personal Reflection | | | | |
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< | I take this as wish fulfillment, as a speech you wish to give but can only imagine yourself giving. | >
> | This is good progress in many respects. But when it comes to educational planning, you should be able to be way more specific. These choices matter now, because you will only have the resources of the school to draw upon for four more terms. Let'
s just list some of the things you need, briefly. You can chew on them productively, I know:
- You need our specialists in prisoner's representation, Genty and Dignam. They will be crucial for you all the way along.
- You need to read our late colleague Robert Ferguson's Metamorphosis with someone who can act as guide. An independent study seems right to me.
- You need sociology of criminal justice and training in research methods. Jeff Fagan is the best there is.
- You need philosophy and cultural theory of punishment. That's Bernard Harcourt's intellectual home. He brought Michelle Alexander to Columbia, and you need to work with her.
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< | You know, to be sure, that the first sixteen weeks of law school couldn't have done all that you had been expecting even had they done nothing else, and at a minimum they had at least to teach you the language by immersion before important matters could be discussed in it. By emphasizing the profound importance of personal considerations in your education, you also show why it would always be crucial that your legal education be shaped for you and by you, which the first term's table d'hôte menu can only accidentally further while it gets the rest of the job done. | >
> | There are offerings outside the law school in the larger university that would be powerful for you. You should spend some time with the catalog. | | | | |
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< | The tone of disappointment shading into outrage is appropriate to the dream-like imaginary quality of the context. But you can't conclude on it, because in the end the responsibility to make the education work for you is validly on you. The next draft, therefore, can afford to start where this one ends, with the concrete task of making your educational program suit your needs. | >
> | See where I am going? I think the landscape is rich for you, and you should do some systematic exploring. | | |
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