"When it comes to the law, nothin' is understood." So says Dragline, the character played by George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke. As I finish up law school, and prepare to start my clerkship, wherein my colleagues and I will labor under the fiction that law is quite well understood, Dragline's quip, used to settle a dispute in a wager, seems extremely apt. He argues that the indeterminacy of law makes his interpetation, rather than any other, the authoritative one. This form of reasoning is not novel nor, unfortunately, is it all that rare. But I will do my best to avoid it, so far as possible, in my posts here.
So, welcome here. I'll try to put up a substantive post soon, perhaps about Adam Liptak's article in today's NYTimes, Are Law Reviews Irrelevant? [Times Select].
Monday, March 19, 2007
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