Lawyers and Politics

Here are Cheryl Thill, Doug Cuthbertson and Ilana Friedman reflecting on the connection between lawyers and politics soon after the recent election. Cheryl and Ilana are a bit more skeptical than Doug about how strong a connection there is between legal training and politics. 

Cheryl and Ilana see the connection as fairly weak - law school prepares students in some respects which may cause some lawyers to be motivated to pursue politics, while Doug suggests that the daily work of lawyers exposes them to the bigger questions behind the laws with which they work, motivating them to pursue politics.

I am more inclined towards Doug's view, but Cheryl and Ilana remind me that it may just be a lawyer's conceit.  As a law professor, I would like to think we are teaching our students about justice and how the law can make our society better. 

But many other people are also concerned about justice and making society better. There is a long American tradition of great skepticism about the claim that any kind of education or background should give one a special role in exercising authority. Those who hold that skeptical view may note that lawyers have long been over represented at all levels of American government, but that may be best explained by sociological analysis and may not reflect a particularly desirable state of affairs.

As I note, I take a different view.  I think there is a deeper connection between lawyers and politics.   Lawyers are not the only people who have thought about our aspirations for justice and equality, but the law does provide one important lens through which we have long analyzed those ideas.

What's more, although many will disagree with me, in my experience as a law student and teacher in three different law schools, law school and the legal culture are both quite concerned with notions of justice and equality.  We might do it differently and we could certainly do it better, but so long as the law is one of our major tools for social control and social change, I hope lawyers will continue to step up to the plate.

Eliot Spitzer, Law School, Lawyers, Politics, Fordham, Legal Education

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