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Law in Contemporary Society
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Paper Title-- By JoshuaHochman - 16 Apr 2010 To aspiring adults, just about any career appears to have a set of protocols that governs successes and failures, which makes growing into a career is an intimidating process. Law is the quintessential example: centuries of tradition meet contemporary ideas about justice and advocacy in the theater of courtrooms or boardrooms or at Dean & Deluca’s. The weight of tradition that underlies the 1L curriculum is extremely taxing to somebody who doesn’t know what kind of lawyer he wants to be just yet. The attorneys depicted in the excerpted chapters of Lawrence Joseph’s Lawyerland provide a refreshing breath of brutality and clarification to a profession that is too often shrouded in formalities. I argue here that this type of vulgar honesty is extremely useful to future advocates, despite any friction with the formalities of being a law student.Section IWhen Robinson is called “vulgar” by the federal prosecutor, his defense incorporates enough dissatisfaction with the criminal justice system to reframe the term. A secondhand account of a secondhand account, the book’s depiction is largely symbolic of misappropriated attention. Why is maintaining the appearance of justice and civility more important than talking about what’s really going on?Subsection ASubsub 1Subsection BSubsub 1Subsub 2Section IISubsection ASubsection BYou are entitled to restrict access to your paper if you want to. But we all derive immense benefit from reading one another's work, and I hope you won't feel the need unless the subject matter is personal and its disclosure would be harmful or undesirable. To restrict access to your paper simply delete the "#" on the next line: # * Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW = TWikiAdminGroup, JoshuaHochman Note: TWiki has strict formatting rules. Make sure you preserve the three spaces, asterisk, and extra space at the beginning of that line. If you wish to give access to any other users simply add them to the comma separated list |
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