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My Peculiar Aristocratic Title
Dec. 21st, 2006 12:28 am | My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Excellency Sidra the Inexorable of Burton-le-Coggles Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title |
Dec. 21st, 2006
I went to a talk on Mass v. EPA
Dec. 21st, 2006 10:00 pmThis is a Big Deal case about climate change and the EPA's regulation (or lack thereof) of greenhouse gases. Jim Milkey is the Asst. Atty. General who argued the case, and it was fascinating to get to hear him chat about the whole experience.
How close you are to the judges, which really does make it like a conversation you're having (with a crowd of excruciatingly smart people), how much strategizing and planning goes into oral argument, how important 'mooting' is (setting up a mock argument with lawyers, etc. playing the role of judges), and how lengthy that process can be, not sleeping the night before, the give and take with individual Justices - just fascinating. Just fascinating.
There's so much more than the law, in the practice of law. It's an infrastructure, a model, and then there's all this other stuff resting on top of it, about people. I would not have been equipped to even try any of this 10 years ago. (Hopefully, this means I'll look back 10 years from now and reflect on having acquired competency over that time.)
How close you are to the judges, which really does make it like a conversation you're having (with a crowd of excruciatingly smart people), how much strategizing and planning goes into oral argument, how important 'mooting' is (setting up a mock argument with lawyers, etc. playing the role of judges), and how lengthy that process can be, not sleeping the night before, the give and take with individual Justices - just fascinating. Just fascinating.
There's so much more than the law, in the practice of law. It's an infrastructure, a model, and then there's all this other stuff resting on top of it, about people. I would not have been equipped to even try any of this 10 years ago. (Hopefully, this means I'll look back 10 years from now and reflect on having acquired competency over that time.)