Seriously, folks?

So, as previously mentioned, I feel that my externship seminar is not perhaps the most helpful class in the entire law school universe. I admit that our roster of special guests improves those two excruciating evening hours. I have no intention of ever becoming a law clerk, but getting to talk with a few of them from superior to state supreme courts was definitely kind of cool. This coming week will bring in the heavier hitters - namely the judges from superior to federal appeals, and the week after that we'll be talking about criminal justice with representatives from the prosecutor's office, defense, corrections, and uh something else. Nonetheless in order to both provide the "academic support" required by the ABA and not overburden us, we still get these weekly assignments that feel just one step shy of a middle school book report. I would not be surprised if soon we will be asked to create a skit to illustrate our opinions about Federal Question Jurisdiction... in our externship ("In your externship" is to this class what "in bed" is to any fortune cookie fortune). For instance, among some other general readings and assignments, we were given this assignment for the week:

"Write a paper of at least two pages, double spaced, answering the following questions:

a. Define the term 'justice'

b. Does the law always bring about justice? Explain your answer.

c. Does justice take place at your externship site? Explain your answer ..."

Don't get me wrong, the relationship of law and justice is a weighty and fairly intriguing one - one that perhaps was hammered to death in our idealistic 1L years in which every teacher wanted to make sure that we *really* examined the issue before the ennui of our terrible 2L's and the no-showism that is prevalent amongst the 3Ls... 

My inclination on this is to answer that "justice" is the name of the blind dog of the pretend-blind prosecutor who has a brief affair with the main character in Arrested Development, that justice does come to the courts with her because she's pretending he's her seeing eye dog, but although she is also in the prosecutor's office, she works in the criminal section in a different state, so I don't see a lot of justice at my workplace.  I will, of course, sign it Chareth Cutestory, a Pirate Lawyer which means I won't get credit, but I'm pretty sure I don't need this credit anyways since although all assignments are "mandatory" their due dates are "aspirational" and the cumulative point values for doing all of our assignments is about three times as many as we need in order to pass this completely pass fail class.