Let me just say that I love my torts class. Our teacher, who you may have read about before, is really, really entertaining. And at 8:00 am on a Friday morning that's exactly what I need. Take today for example.
Our professor has canceled our class for the day before Thanksgiving (giving me a five day break!). We have to make up the two hours of class we are missing, so we had three hours of torts this morning. The professor gave us a 15 minute break half-way through class and gave us cookies and fruit. As a poor grad student I'll jump all over some free food.
We were discussing the tort of trespassers this morning and property damage. She asked a student (not me, I had already been grilled for about 30 minutes that morning. She was tough. But at least I wasn't the worst person in class) why the Supreme Court would make a certain decision when logically it wasn't correct. The students argument: "Well, morally it was right". And that's when she broke out with the motto of the next three years of my life:
"This isn't moral school, it's law school. Make me a legal argument".
For all of you out there who think that lawyers are nothing more than amoral parasites it's not our fault, we've been trained that way.
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