In Seattle last weekend, talking about traveling to Oz, this weekend a law school classmate was in town from Jerusalem. Four of us got together, and lunch at 1 p.m. turned into a five hour discussion of public policy, the democratic primaries, the reason for bank illiquidity, and Japan (one of us after law school spent six years teaching English there as a way of learning Japanese).
I had a great time in law school. I miss the sheer breadth of intellectual diversity. Such wonderful conversations we used to have in the TV room, watching TV with people who have and will be in significant government positions or the like.
It's such a shame that all that talent (where I went) does not permeate the profession and largely has nothing to do with the profession. I guess in some sense it is good to know that we did not have to save the world - at least in the U.S. - because it has largely been saved (compared to 1948, when a black man had to sue to be admitted to the University of Texas law school - see Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950). Law school is, I suppose, after all a trade school.
I had a great time in law school. I miss the sheer breadth of intellectual diversity. Such wonderful conversations we used to have in the TV room, watching TV with people who have and will be in significant government positions or the like.
It's such a shame that all that talent (where I went) does not permeate the profession and largely has nothing to do with the profession. I guess in some sense it is good to know that we did not have to save the world - at least in the U.S. - because it has largely been saved (compared to 1948, when a black man had to sue to be admitted to the University of Texas law school - see Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950). Law school is, I suppose, after all a trade school.
fatality:
I just showed my friend here your journal, as he begins law school next year and is understandably nervous about not liking it. I wish you had similar assurances for my medical school anxieties, but time will assuage them, I'm sure. (I hope.)