{"id":104,"date":"2005-08-17T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T15:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/08\/17\/lawyer-genes\/"},"modified":"2005-08-17T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T15:20:31","slug":"lawyer-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/08\/17\/lawyer-genes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a879'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they should include the SCOTUS nomination process in the<br \/>\nsyllabus for Legal Professions.&nbsp; The coverage on Roberts is<br \/>\nforcing me to evaluate my decisions relating to law.&nbsp; I like this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2124543\/nav\/tap1\/\">excerpt from Slate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">I am enormously confident, however, that John Roberts has never smoked<br \/>\npot. And I know this because I knew guys like him in college and at law<br \/>\nschool; we all knew guys like him. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">These were the guys who were<br \/>\ncertain, by age 19, that they couldn&#8217;t smoke pot, or date trampy girls,<br \/>\nor throw up off the top of the school clock tower because it would<br \/>\nimpair their confirmation chances.<\/span> They would have done all these<br \/>\nthings, but for the possibility of being carved out of the history<br \/>\nbooks for it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I actually remember being 19, and having this exact agonizing debate,<br \/>\nboth internally and vocally with some of my goody-two-shoes pre-med<br \/>\nfriends.&nbsp; Judicial career or satiate youthful curiousity?&nbsp;<br \/>\nGod, what a nerd.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>But now that I am 27, someone should bring on the trampy girls.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, I donned a hairnet this morning, and spent a couple of hours putting salt and pepper packets on trays at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glide.org\/\">Glide Memorial<\/a>.&nbsp; My only comment: their cafeteria has a much better scent than the county jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps they should include the SCOTUS nomination process in the syllabus for Legal Professions.&nbsp; The coverage on Roberts is forcing me to evaluate my decisions relating to law.&nbsp; I like this excerpt from Slate: I am enormously confident, however, that John Roberts has never smoked pot. And I know this because I knew guys like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}