An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Have you ever reflected upon legal thinking?
I have.
And what strikes me is its sloppiness.
Like children coloring with crayons, we do not think within the lines that mark the boundaries of our legal thoughts. To adults, the failure to respect the lines is a sign of an immature, primitive and unrefined understanding. However, to children, there is nothing wrong with coloring beyond the lines. The Katha Upanishad warns against our tendency towards self-deception: "Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither, like blind led by blind". Yet, we go hither and thither about our legal business blithely unaware that our legal thinking is sloppy. To us, our legal thinking seems normal. However, it is not. Like stink, when everyone is accustomed to it, nobody notices it. Yet, not noticing it makes neither the stink nor the sloppiness go away.
"Not me," I hear you say. "Surely not me. There is no sloppiness in my legal thinking."
Really? Are you quite sure? There is a simple test. It will measure the sloppiness of your legal thinking. Ask yourself
1) How many parts does a law have and
2) what is the name of each part?
It is such a simple test. Number and name the parts of a law. Can you do it? ( Hint: Click Here )
A handful of legal thoughts is always found in the midst of a law whenever a law is inspected. It is the same handful no matter the law. Hence, this handful of legal thoughts can be thought of as the 'core' or 'genetic code' of a law. Although this handful of legal thoughts is there in plain sight, most are blind to its existence. To see it, our eyes first must be opened. Each legal thought contained in the handful is equivalent to a part of a law. Assemble the parts together and, voilà, they form the structure of a law. The words of a law, like ornaments, adorn the structure of a law. The words change; the structure stays the same. It repeats itself again and again in every instance of a law. To generate a law's meaning, both its words and its structure cooperate. Anyone who wishes to push meaning into or pull meaning out of a law must be mindful of a law's structure . Any failure to respect the structure of a law generates inscrutable legalese and legal misunderstanding.
It is obvious that a law has words. They are visible. It is not obvious that a law has parts. They are invisible. However, like the invisible force we call gravity, the parts of a law have an influence on a law's meaning as profound as its words! Yet, the insight that a law is more than its words has not yet been recognized by the legal community. Law schools teach the words of our laws but not their parts . This is a blunder of the highest magnitude. Is it a cause for concern that our law schools are graduating students who are ignorant of the parts of a law and can neither number nor name them? Would you patronize a baker who is ignorant of the ingredients of a bun? Would you put your health into the hands of doctor who is ignorant of the parts of the human body? Why would any client take his case to a lawyer who is ignorant of the parts of a law? More ignominiously, why would any lawyer put himself or herself into the embarrassing position of not being able to explain the parts of a law to anyone who asks?
Physicists have struggled in vain for years to discover a unified theory of everything; lawyers, however, have had better success. We now have a unified theory of a law. It teaches that a law is simple, its behavior is regular, and its structure can be broken down into parts and mapped on a Periodic Table of the Elements of a Law® ( Click Here ) Only by fastly anchoring ourselves to A Unified Theory of a Law can we keep our bearings when buffeted and tormented by the storms of meaningless legalese that all too often rumble and flash across the legal landscape leaving a trail of legal misunderstanding in their wake.
Aren't you a bit curious? Aren't you concerned that your adversaries can see this additional layer of meaning and you cannot? Recall that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
A Unified Theory of a Law - in all its simplicity - is presented in its entirety on the pages of this website. To learn, all you have to do is click.
Begin your legal education - or reeducation - by Clicking Here
John Bosco is available
to teach
a three hour seminar about his Unified Theory of a Law.
Give him a call: 718-513-9880 or email him: BBMBOSCO@gmail.com
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard
Acts 4:20