Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 02, 1975

Transcript:

Professor: First, a brief rationale for this course. Hear me out. Ambrose Bierce once defined a lawyer as "one skilled in circumventing the law." It was a devil's definition, of course, but the events of recent years have more than once lent it truth. It is not sufficient for a lawyer to simply know the law. Law schools today have a far more fundamental obligation to insure that their graduates have an understanding of its spirit, its moral essence! "Right and wrong 10-A" is one such stab in the dark.