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Law as house
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future generations that will come to live within
its walls.
Though it is feels quite fulfilling to finally
pair the what is law question with an answer,
I already know I am wrong. It is a question I
couldn’t possibly hope to answer correctly, but
that doesn’t mean I feel it was an invalid effort.
Rather, all I was hoping to do was break from
the tradition of non-answers, to show that you
can say something concrete, whether right or
wrong, and find some value in that solidity.
I feel “what is law” is a question that every one
of my peers should have an answer to. Wherever you go in your legal career, the overarching power of the law will control and curb your
progress. It is an inevitability we must face, and
the only weapon we will have to deal with these
limitations will be knowledge. Only through
understanding the law can we hope to help it
grow, and only through knowing what law is
can we truly understand it. The task if far from
complete, but hopefully, agree or not with my
assessment, this text has provided at least a
potential place to start.
Letter to Jessica White
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meals, where you will need to be able to listen
when other people are eating around you. If
you become picky about what your clients are
eating I suspect you may have trouble retaining
them.
Finally, I suggest you pay particular attention
to the area of “jurisdiction” in Administrative
Law since you seem to have exceeded yours. As
a student, not an instructor, administrator or
leader in any capacity, I think many of us feel
it was highly inappropriate of you to provide
the class with any sort of instructional guide
as to our conduct. If you have a problem, more
appropriate steps such as discussing it with
the professor or other administrative personnel, who have both authority and considerably
more tact than you, would be advisable in the
future. I am sure those sitting near you would
have been happy to try to accommodate you had
you approached them politely and voiced your
concerns regarding their classroom behaviour.
I further request you do not speak on behalf of
“the rest of us” as, although I was not eating in
class, I do not feel your statements adequately
represent my views at all. As your email
appears to have gone viral, congratulations. I
particularly do not want my name associated
with this view, or the rude manner in which it
was expounded.
Sincerely,
Kylie Thomas
Ditch the trash
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as you would around people whom you respect,
whose respect you covet and persons who if you
disrespected, would make for unpleasant consequences for you. This is possibly the reason
why most people reflexively turn down the car
stereo when pulled over by the police or why
we wouldn’t, if employed by a prestigious firm,
contemplate for a millisecond eating anything
(let alone a bowl of gumbo) in the presence of
a client, with whom a business relationship is
greatly desired.
The open letter by the student was wrong for
a host of reasons and the writer now certainly
is aware of this. The ineloquence of the writer
or the truculent nature of the medium aside,
the content of the letter retains at the very
least, subject matter worthy of quite contemplation and self-reflection. With good fences,
we collectively can limit, nay, eliminate any
encroachment upon our individual enjoyment
of communal spaces. The positive ripple effect
from this I like to think is infinite: as good
neighbors make for great friends, and great
friends coexist harmoniously in any and indeed
all spaces. Eventually, you’ll inevitably realize the grass is always green, when you live on
both sides of the fence.
the obiter dicta
JCRBAR
OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL
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