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That is absolutely not true. There's no bigger fan of jokes and jabs w/in constraints than lawyers, and judges in particular. I know of several law schools wh
by knowtheory 16y ago
That is absolutely not true. There's no bigger fan of jokes and jabs w/in constraints than lawyers, and judges in particular. I know of several law schools which have competitions amongst their classes to find the weirdest, funniest, or most bizarre citation or footnote w/in legal briefs/case law.
There is some weird stuff in our legal system, however they (typically) are asides amongst the core arguments, or in support of the core arguments of a legal case.
Remember that good lawyers are hackers. They're trying to find edge cases and tease at the margins of the representation of the world that has been encoded in law.
- wulczer 16y agoHeh, it might be true, but I'm sure that lawyers that work in software companies screening the project BigCorp wants to use for potential licensing problems will share a laugh amongst them, but will then write to the boss saying: "It's risky, don't use that code".
- knowtheory 16y agoOh, i should make a distinction. Actual litigators have different jobs from corporate attorneys. Big corp legal departments are like corporate security teams. They don't want to see anything that could surprise them, and ideally they're going to lock your corporate environment down as tightly as they possibly can. Their job is to make sure no one else can screw with the way they've modeled the world.