Attorneys may never be an altogether altruistic bunch. But they’d probably do better if they spent their law schools days focusing less on the elusive search for mathematical solutions and more on the inherent contradictions of society. Our world today is facing many unprecedented dilemmas, dilemmas that require ambitious and global solutions. Such solutions inevitably require asking uncomfortably imprecise questions about justice, fairness and order. We should be eager, I think, to confront such questions with the most wide-ranging imaginations we can.
Changing the intellectual tenor of our law schools is not going to save the world. But if law students are encouraged to think less in terms of numbers and more in terms of people, and if they are presented with a vocabulary of compassion rather than one of cold calculation, they stand a good chance of helping it along.
You can’t put a price on that.
Ted Hamilton is a student at Harvard Law School.
Attorneys may never be an altogether altruistic bunch. But they’d probably do better if they spent their law schools days focusing less on the elusive search for mathematical solutions and more on the inherent contradictions of society. Our world today is facing many unprecedented dilemmas, dilemmas that require ambitious and global solutions. Such solutions inevitably require asking uncomfortably imprecise questions about justice, fairness and order. We should be eager, I think, to confront such questions with the most wide-ranging imaginations we can.
Changing the intellectual tenor of our law schools is not going to save the world. But if law students are encouraged to think less in terms of numbers and more in terms of people, and if they are presented with a vocabulary of compassion rather than one of cold calculation, they stand a good chance of helping it along.
You can’t put a price on that.
Ted Hamilton is a student at Harvard Law School.
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