Law in Contemporary Society

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ChangingSocietyUsingWordsTalk 14 - 30 Mar 2009 - Main.WilliamKing
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 Prompt: (1) In terms of effecting social change with words, what can lawyers accomplish that novelists or journalists cannot? (2) If lawyers possess a unique ability to effect social change, does it stem from their knowledge of, and proximity to, power structures?

Authors and journalists effected grand-scale change by laying the groundwork for many prominent social reforms and by successfully shaping American public opinion

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 I don't think we have to be troubled by the fact that this doesn't make the category of concrete actions that constitute lawyering entirely disjoint from other categories of concrete actions. It's still useful to talk about how having a law license affects what change one can accomplish in what way with words (and this is for the most part what everyone's been talking about).

-- GregJohnson - 29 Mar 2009

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>		I agree with your most recent post Greg. When we take into consideration the notion that lawyers use words to make things happen, these happenings are closely related to the law license. Meaning that a lawyer unlike a novelist, can use his law license in conjunction with his words to make things happen in a legal sense. As I understand lawyering, a law license opens up both a knowledge of the rules and procedures that govern our society and the ability to affect these rules and procedures through the legal system. A lawyer, who can predict the future, can use his words and foresight to shape aspects of this potential future.

-- WilliamKing - 30 Mar 2009


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