One LThe law-student author recounts the workload, conflicts, pressures, anxieties, relationships, and educational content of the critical and difficult first year at Harvard's prestigious and demanding law school |
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I realized that somehow it summed up the feelings I had about law school: the
fear, the uncertainties, the hope of challenge, triumph, discovery. And somehow
with that name on what was ahead I became surer that my decisions were correct
.
I realized that somehow it summed up the feelings I had about law school: the
fear, the uncertainties, the hope of challenge, triumph, discovery. And somehow
with that name on what was ahead I became surer that my decisions were correct
.
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Or does consent somehow cure those wrongs? I wondered when he would cut it
out. There was no answer to these questions. There never would be. I sat still for
a second. Then I repeated what I'd just thought to myself: There were no ...
Or does consent somehow cure those wrongs? I wondered when he would cut it
out. There was no answer to these questions. There never would be. I sat still for
a second. Then I repeated what I'd just thought to myself: There were no ...
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societal contradictions' which he had first mentioned in Erie. He continued to talk
about the tension between our common desire that the law be uniform and
certain, and our wish that it somehow meet the needs of justice in the individual
case.
societal contradictions' which he had first mentioned in Erie. He continued to talk
about the tension between our common desire that the law be uniform and
certain, and our wish that it somehow meet the needs of justice in the individual
case.
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| Title | One L |
| Author | Scott Turow |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Lawyers & Judges Harvard Law School Law / General Law / Legal Education Law students Law students - Massachusetts - Biography Law students/ Massachusetts/ Biography Turow, Scott |
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