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A statute for law professors
For those of you who I went to law school with, imagine Professor Murphy with the following statute:
Section 1.
. . . .
(2) Any food establishment to which this section applies shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese, based on criteria which is prescribed by the State Department of Health after consultation with the Mississippi Council on Obesity Prevention established under Section 41-101-1 or its successor. . . .
For those who have not been subjected to the special form of torture called law school, a law professor’s job is to locate the greyness in a law and exploit that for all its worth to make you look stupid in front of your peers. Professor Murphy is the best at this practice. (Of course she does it out of love for her students).
This is an actual bill before the Mississippi legislature. Where exactly is the borderline between obese and not obese? Would you be required to submit to a weigh in before being served?
For those of you who went to other schools, you probably have your own version of Professor Murphy…imagine that professor with this statute on her mind and you in her crosshairs. It would be a bloodbath.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Karl writes : “a law professor’s job is to locate the greyness in a law and exploit that for all its worth to make you look stupid in front of your peers.”
Fortunately the Socratic method I was under both as an undergrad and in grad school spared me from this system.
February 16th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
That’s a funny story. I had a friend who was a lawyer named Bill one time and he was good at that. He did it to me intentionally and without skipping a beat every chance he got. I appreciate and despise him for being a good teacher.
February 17th, 2008 at 8:55 am
“Would you be required to submit to a weigh in before being served?”
Nope, it would a simple democratic vote by a show of hands or cat calls of derision. Every one within sight who wanted to vote, would either vote the fat one in or out.
February 20th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
lovethegirls,
I labored under Socratic law profs as well, but found that “The Method” is like a gun; It can be a furious weapon in malicious hands.
My Murphy was named Perez, a legal mind so great that I am sure that, if no one showed up for Contracts one day, he would lecture to an empty room for an hour and leave.
WAC
February 20th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
…and make the empty room look stupid before he left, no doubt.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
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