"When I toured the law school in the summer, it had all looked so solid, so enduring, that I'd felt a majestic thrill to think I'd soon be allied with this and the time-ennobled traditions of the law. Now, getting off the bus, I felt mostly my nerves, which were lit all the way down to my knees," (Registration: Meeting My Enemy, p. 2).

"'Look,' he told me, 'if I was going to law school, I would be going because I wanted to meet my enemy. I think that's a good thing to do. And if I wanted to meet my enemy, I would go to Harvard, because I'd be surest of meeting him there,'" (Registration: Meeting My Enemy, p. 6).

"Despite student pain and protest, most law professors, including those who are liberal—even radical—on other issues in legal education, defend the Socratic method...