Packed
Lecture Hall. Legal maxims
Short,
fast-paced questions, equally
Thoughtful
answers and more questions
Hypotheticals,
scenarios, what-ifs
Delved into
with precision
Simulations.
Moots. Role plays.
Person
X, Client Y, Advice them
What
will you tell your client?
Legal
theories aside, cast into the
Shallow
ponds of the Undergraduate
No
postulations:
We are
here to be entrusted
With life,
property and liberty
Have
them in contemplation
They
are your neighbor, we are told
We draw
instruments
As if
they will be attested to
Like in
the real world
This,
they call legal mind
For it
captures a thousand possibilities
It can
notice the awkward comma in a provision
It
questions, it casts doubts, it shakes credibility
It is
guided by whys and wherefores
It
doesn’t rest for it goes berserk
Exhuming
buried intentions and careful device
Uprooting
well laid secrets and guilt
Weaving
a story from evidence and witnesses
Inside
the packed lecture hall, minds are stropped
Brains
meet brains, wits meet wits
The
difference is that they are not wigged!
C)
Lorot Salem 2011
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