Remarks: The Simple Virtues of The Cathedral
1997; The Yale Law Journal Company; Volume: 106; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/797166
ISSN1939-8611
Autores Tópico(s)Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
Resumowritings being analyzed. say thafi Did really say that? course didn't say that! Or conversely, Of course said thatl could possibly think that didn't? Obviously that idea was there. Anyone could tell it was there! But who is to say whether it really was there in a meaningful sense? As a teacher of products liability, guess I'm committed to the notion that once one creates a product, an artifact, that artifact must speak for itself, it must be taken with all that its users find in it, or find to be missing from it. And one can't completely exonerate oneself from the damage done by a plausible use of the product by saying, I didn't mean for it to be used that way. Still, one is tempted to suggest how one's artifact should and should not be used, and so here am. I'm very glad to see that Doug Melamed is also here; wanted him to spring unexpected out of a cake?unfortunately there is no cake. But he is here, and you have had a chance to listen to him. especially wanted him here because over the years many people have asked me, Who was Melamed? as if he didn't exist, as if he weren't one of the country's leading lawyers. Most of you, like me, are teachers and scholars, and we sometimes think of the world as one in which only scholarly achievements matter. We are, of course, quite wrong. There was a man named Nathan Young, who graduated from the Yale Law School in 1918. He founded the NAACP in Missouri, and later became the first African-American judge in Missouri. On the seventieth anniversary of his graduation, he came back to the law school and spoke at commencement. To place him among his classmates, got a list of the people who had graduated with him in 1918. Among them was Llewellyn. Naturally, asked Young if he knew Llewellyn and he said, Karl Llewellyn . . . of course knew Karl, we wrote a paper together?bright fellow . . . What ever became of him? So
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