[Law Prof.] The fool doth think she is Weiser

The fool doth think she is Weiser.

In a country, actually an entire planet, overwhelmed by suffering and oppression, the downtrodden cry out for assistance. Their humble request is for more law school graduates to analyze subordination for them, and provide them with much-needed leadership. But American law schools, though fantastical places that provide their students with super-cerebral analytical and problem-solving skills, have gone astray. You see, law students, their values distorted by a greedy culture, crave Bentley cars and private jets, rather than service and justice, and the complacent schools have not provided appropriate correction. So to all you recent law school grads and law students, one can only ask: where is your shame? Instead of hankering for a private jet, why not adjust your goals and values to accord with those of the fictional character Atticus Finch^[각주:1]? Why not craft a more just and caring society, as your law professors taught you to do through their principled critiques of the status quo and their explanations of your professional responsibilities?

If you think that the paragraph you just read is a preposterous and incoherent attempt at parody, then read the following quotes from Fordham Law Professor Hazel Weiser, a long-time honcho of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT). Unfortunately, my rhetorical exaggerations are slight. As the quotes demonstrate, I am actually summarizing her views.

Here is a request to Weiser and other law professors.

Do you think you can work on being a little less self-righteous and a little more reflective? SALT's publication is called The Equalizer. Why don't you offer a "principled critique" of the inequality between six-figure salaried law professors with tenure and six-figure indebted law students with dismal career prospects? You have made yourselves rich and cozy off the misplaced trust and astonishing debt loads of bright but naive 22-26 year olds, most of whom will end up as debt slaves for decades, and many of whom will be unable to carve out a place in a glutted profession. If you do not challenge that status quo, that "subordination," then your recent graduates and others in the profession will regard you as contemptible hypocrites. With justice. 

Lawyer Demographics 2013

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Lawyer 2010 Median Pay     $112,760 per year

1. Atticus Finch is a fictional character of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus is a lawyer and resident of the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama, and the father of Jeremy "Jem" Finch and Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. Lee based the character on her own father, Amasa Coleman Lee, an Alabama lawyer who, like Atticus Finch, represented black defendants in a highly-publicized criminal trial. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atticus_Finch [본문으로]