Law in Contemporary Society

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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.

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 This course is presented as an extended exercise in active listening. Moglen’s rationale for introducing music into the classroom is more straightforward than one might expect: to break from the traditional structure of legal education.
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<		Law school conditions students to prioritize performance over presence. There is a hyper-fixation on what one says and how one says it. While the statement “No one remembers a bad cold call” is debatable, it holds more truth when framed as people are too absorbed in themselves to concentrate on others. This is why students tend to dwell more on their own performance and perceived failures.
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>		Law school conditions students to prioritize performance over presence. There is a hyper-fixation on what one says and how one says it. While the statement “No one remembers a bad cold call” is debatable, it bears more weight when framed as people are too absorbed in themselves to concentrate on others. This is why students tend to dwell more on their own performance and perceived failures.
 I am equally guilty. During a classmate's cold call, my thoughts are: What would I have answered? Did I grasp this week’s material? How can I anticipate the next question and craft a satisfactory response? My attention is fractured by a subconscious preoccupation with the self.
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Picasso and the Bad Man

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<		People miss the obvious by taking what they see at face value. Picasso was great not because he saw things others did not. He saw what everyone else did—just differently. His genius was in disrupting perception. Cubism deconstructs reality by rearranging the subject from multiple perspectives. This technique compels the viewer to consider what is “true.” I think I see a face, but is it really a face? Or is it simply how I have been taught to recognize one?
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>		People miss the obvious by taking what they see at face value. Picasso was great not because he saw things others did not. He saw what everyone else did—just differently. His genius was in disrupting perception. Cubism deconstructs reality by fracturing perspective. This technique compels the viewer to consider what is “true.” I think I see a face, but is it really a face? Or is it simply how I have been taught to recognize one?
 Holmes takes a similar position: knowledge of the law requires looking at it as a bad man would. Lawyers are trained to speak, not to listen—but the bad man would listen first. Utterly disinterested in moral justifications, abstract principles, or rhetorical flourish, the bad man cares about one thing: what would happen if I do X? What are the practical consequences of my action? He studies law as a prediction system by identifying what is vague and where the loopholes are. His focus shifts from what the law says to what the law does.

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