Become Infrastructure

Become Someone Else’s Problem

Carry Authority

Carry Civilization

Create Echoes

Create Legitimacy

Create Permanence

Create Predictability

Create Stability

Exist Mostly In Consequence

Exist Mostly In Their Consequences

Extend Authority

Harden Reality

Have Long Memories

Make Cooperation Possible

Make Scale Possible

Need Belief

Need Context

Need Interpretation To Exist

Only Exist Because People Cooperate

Organize Conflict

Organize Cooperation

Outlive Explanations

Outlive Intentions

Outlive Their Purpose

Outlive Their Usefulness

Pretend To Be Temporary

Quietly Connect Strangers

Refuse To Stay Finished

Reward Context

Stabilize

Survive Their Container

poverty

rich

fine

lawyer

law school

law student

court

crime

evidence

trial

one-liner

my wife left me

judge

penal law

rule

sign

guilt

redundancy

illegality

legality

courtroom

is a form of order, and good law must necessarily mean good order.

Law is a form of order, and good law must necessarily mean good order

is a formless mass of isolated decisions.

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions. Morris Raphael Cohen

is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly. Jack London

is a seamless web of implicit yet thus far unrecognized legal determinations which we must must endeavor to articulate and make explicit, and thus bring closer to justice.

for Hegel, law is a seamless web and we must endeavour to articulate these implicit, yet thus far unrecognised, legal determinations from within law's normative content. The more these determinations are made explicit, the richer our understanding of law becomes, and, in addition, the closer the law coheres with justice. Hegel's purpose is then to show us how we ought to think about the laws we have. Or law progressively develops into justice as we fill apparent gaps in the law and resolve internal contradictions'

is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones. Honore de Balzac

is a social norm whose neglect or infraction is regularly met, in threat or in fact, by the application of physical force by an individual or group possessing the socially recognized privilege of so acting.

Hoebel (1954) offered the following definition of law: 'A social norm is legal if its neglect or infraction is regularly met, in threat or in fact, by the application of physical force by an individual or group possessing the socially recognized privilege of so acting'.

is about the exercise of judgment and not will. It is not an infinitely malleable tool.

As Alexander Hamilton said in 'The Federalist Papers,' law is about the exercise of judgment and not will. Judicial activism is best understood as substituting judicial opinion for the command of law. The law is not an infinitely malleable tool. Edwin Meese

is all-powerful in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society. Ernestine Rose

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