1.18.06
Another week, another post - a good sign that I’ve been keeping busy. More cases to read, theories to review, papers to write, numbers to crunch, data to verify. While things have been kind of hectic, I can say that I’m enjoying the experience overall, thinking in the long run it’ll pay off more than I might realize at the moment. In a couple weeks I’ll be reassigned to another division at work, a bit sooner than I had originally planned, but really in the bigger perspective, its not a bad time to move on.
Shifting some kala around, trying to find a good balance for the present and the near future. Things should be solid overall, but it is a reminder sometimes that I am in more ways on my own and alone in the world. I never really did see that as a bad thing, I suppose I’ve always been more the independent type, even at a young age, or so I hear.
Mention of the broken window’s theory in Torts the other day, brought back memories of sociology classes and 421 in Madison, I think that link from my undergraduate adventures is a fitting reminder of what has sparked my interest and drive in going back to school this time around. I think I like the arguements of a fine balance between monetary incentives and deterrance being the foundation for discouraging anti-social behaviors both large and small.
I think in the end this sort of law is what will interest me the most, the applicable, practical, day to day bit. Anything that would bridge the theoretical and overly analytical with the actual public policy implications of it. In the strictest sense I guess I can’t argue against the basic pretense for Tort reform, being that the legal world is so complicated and layered that it limits access to justice.
In a research seminar tonight I was thinking about the volumes and volumes of statutes and regulations that aren’t accessible to the general public in libraries or over the internet without a westlaw or lexis subscription. Then again even if someone had access to the actual hard copy document, its written in a funny language that only a trained reader could interpret and apply to one’s question.