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oldhippie

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10. My problem with explanations of law .....
Tue Jul 16, 2013, 06:37 PM
Jul 2013

... is that they will vary all over the map depending on who you are talking to, where, and when. No matter what the law says in black and white, in seemingly unambiguous terms, lawyers and judges will argue over what it says and what it means. In actuality, the law is whatever the last judge that ruled on it says it is, unless and until it gets overturned by another judge. Even the lawyers and the judges will disagree on almost every issue.

I actually took law courses for two semesters back in the 80's. I thought I wanted to get a law degree. But after the first year the crazy inconsistency of what was supposed to be a very rule bound field just drove my little engineer's brain nuts. I went back to B-school and got a second MBA (in finance) instead. It was a much better match to my brain.

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