Ian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Justin Schwartz
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:52 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: RE: kids v. economists
>
>
> Well, I don't think that teaching Duncan Kennedy or Marx or any such thing
> is going to make much difference to most law students. Law students are
> vocational students, not liberal arts students; the better ones, also, have
> the prospect of making a sickeningly large amount of money. And people's law
> is so poorly compensated--I don't just mean comparatively. I mean, how do
> you support a family on what they pay?
>
> When I was teaching, I don't think preaching to students helped. It mattered
> more to be an example to people who were inclined leftward anyway. --jks
>
> >
> >exactly my point; get the young.....break the "reproductive" cycle....
> >
> > >
> > > The young associates I know at those placesa re highly paid law serfs;
> >they
> > > keep their heads down, work long hours, and hope to make partner in 10
> > > years. They do what they are told. The partners may call the shots, but
> >they
> > > are, as one says, socialized. You are not gonna change THEIR minds with
> >a
> > > crit1que of economic thought. --jks
> > >
> > > >
> > > >Justin, you may be right but a year or two on K Street in DC at a big
> >ten
> > > >or
> > > >twenty law firm would change your mind [esp the one's that are bastions
> >of
> > > >the
> > > >Right]
> > > >
> > > >Ian
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> > > > > [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Justin Schwartz
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:44 PM
> > > > > To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> > > > > Subject: RE: kids v. economists
> > > > >
> > > > >
>
>
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > . If all the economists were
> > > > > >radicalized via new analytical tools we'd still have to confront
> >the
> > > >poly
> > > > > >sci,
> > > > > >business admin/management/marketing, and law departments to change
> >the
> > > > > >ongoing
> > > > > >creation of economic behavior.
> > > > >
> > > > > You mustn't think that law schools are all the University of
> >Chicago,
> > > >econ &
> > > > > law running wild. It's true that Critical Legal Studies (legal
> > > >psotmodernism
> > > > > from the left) is prett quiescent, but if my experience at Ohio
> >State
> > > >Law
> > > > > was typical, law profs are typically left liberals, well to the left
> >of
> > > > > their students, more likely than not. And you tell the students what
> >you
> > > > > like; they don't call the shots when they go out in the world as
> > > >lawyers.
> > > > >
> > > > > --jks
> > > > >
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