Thinking like a lawyer means, in the first instance, thinking with care and precision, reading and speaking with attention to nuance and detail. It means paying attention to language, but also understanding that words can have myriad meanings and can often be manipulated. It thus also means paying attention to context and contingency. That is all part of the lawyer’s craft, or art, which is important both in itself and as a means to larger ends.
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Kent Greenawalt. A renowned authority on constitutional law and legal philosophy, Kent Greenwalt ’63 LL.B. has devoted his more than 50 years at Columbia to teaching and writing about legal interpretation, discrimination, church and state, freedom of speech, and criminal responsibility. His seminal books include Religious Convictions ...
He joined the Law School faculty in 1965. During the early years of his academic career, Greenawalt served on the New York City Bar Association’s civil rights committee from 1966 to 1969 and as deputy solicitor general in the U.S. Department of Justice from 1971 to 1972.
Listen to this classic description of legal reasoning, which was published in The University of Chicago Law Review in 1948. Its author, by the way, Edward Levi, attended the University of Chicago for both his undergraduate ...
Its author, by the way, Edward Levi, attended the University of Chicago for both his undergraduate and law degrees; taught on this faculty; and was provost and president of the University, as well as Attorney General of the United States. Levi writes: “The basic pattern of legal reasoning is … reasoning from case to case.
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