Anja,
Interesting question! I think people come to law school for many different reasons.
Some possibilities:
- Greedy
- Like to argue
- Interested in the law
- Like writing
- Power-hungry
- Want to help people
- Want to change society
- Nothing better to do/seemed like a good idea at the time
- Parents shamed them into it
- Want prestige/respectability
- Like charcoal and navy, hate pastels
Some of these reasons seem more legitimate than others. Intuitively, "justice" is "better" than "greed" (is it really?). Moglen wants to redirect people to "justice."
But is that really possible in a classroom? Doesn't it have to be like a religious experience, where one has a revelation that gives him faith, because it can't be derived by logic? In the real world, people rarely change their minds by being argued with. They do it because their gut decides for them. That would be your visit to Poland. So how can we be for "justice" if we haven't had the same type of epiphany?
-- GavinSnyder - 07 Feb 2009
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