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March 22, 2010. Yes, law school is just like middle school. Also, if you don't get the last three panels, see R. v. Dudley and Stephens, [1884] 14 QBD 273 DC, in which defendant shipwrecked sailors were convicted of murder for killing and eating their cabin boy to stay alive. See also "robe and wizard hat" (warning: actual lewd language, not just innuendo).
Also, I don't remember exactly who asked for this comic, but well, you asked for it.
Dudley and Stephens
Brown Rabbit: More legal history from the 1800s?
Why do we have to learn this?
Tort Bunny: Well, I think it's because,
you know, the law grew
in fits and spurts.
End of panel.
Tort Bunny: I mean, it's not like Lady Justice
laid down the law somewhere
and said, "Come and get it!"
Tort Bunny: There's a process, and you can't just
blow it off, because to understand
what lies in front of you, you must
know what stands behind you.
End of panel.
Tort Bunny: Past, present, and future
Tort Bunny: The ménage à trois
of legal scholarship.
Tort Bunny: Yet the law is about more
than learned hands guiding
the thrust of history.
Tort Bunny: The rules that bind us today were
erected by real people pushing
against hard problems.
End of panel.
Tort Bunny: To get a firm grasp on where these
folks were coming from, you have
to be up for a little role playing.
Tort Bunny: Put on your robe and wizard
hat and imagine what those
seamen felt, stranded at sea
with naught but a cabin boy!
End of panel.
Tort Bunny: A strapping young lad of a cabin boy
tanning beneath the summer sun.
End of panel.
Tort Bunny: Mmmm ... cabin boy.
Brown Rabbit slowly backs away.
End of comic.
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