Three Must Reads for Law Students and Other Stories
This week we discuss some interesting readings, talk about academic writing, share a poem on silence and ask you for your ideas!
Three Must-Reads for Law Students As Per Professor Nuggehalli
The first is a beautiful little essay by Abraham Flexner titled ‘The usefulness of useless knowledge’. It makes the case that allowing scholars and students to pursue useless intellectual enquiries not only encourages academic freedom but also leads to major advances in science and technology. There is another deeper lesson to be learnt from this piece: let’s avoid a transactional view of education that measures the value of education in terms only of a return on investment. Unfortunately this view is pervasive among a number of students and parents. There is nothing improper in looking at education as a gateway to a career but to think of the professional degree of law in terms of the amount of money it will earn you at the end of five years is to demean the intellectual and humanistic core at the heart of the law.
Read the entire piece here.
Starting with Academic Writing? Here's Some Advice and an Update on Journal of Indian Law and Society's New Initiatives
If someone had asked me five years back to write about my experience of being part of the editorial board of one of the prominent law journals of the country, I would have considered it as a joke. For someone who published their first academic writing in their fourth year, being part of academia sounds dreamy to me. Therefore, while I discuss about my time at the Journal of Indian Law and Society, and especially the JILS blog; my primary focus will be on why I feel anyone can write a research paper.
Read the entire piece here.
Sensing the Sound of Silence – A Poem
No one knows what’s veritable silence,
Even many dread in utter quiet;
Clamor, Rush and din! is this renascence?
Everybody is locked in a dogfight.
The poem emphasizes the power of silence in a world full of noise. Read the entire poem here.
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An active trial lawyer must consider everything, which includes not only the case, the personality of his client, his own character traits, and even & the weather.
-Robert Goldman
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