Legal Commentary

The title is one for a post I started writing at the beginning of the month, then deleted, and never came back to it.

At this point, I don't remember the connection, although I think it started with an observation about being very anal about shoveling the driveway (something we've been doing a lot of in Boston this winter), and wondering why it made a difference to me that I made the driveway look clean and neat and not merely functional.  That morphed into thoughts about other things that we do simply because we do them, and think they make a huge difference, but perhaps don't.  And, indeed, what would have been heretical for me, as a contracts professor in a six-credit course, would have been to suggest that six credits devoted to contract law might be overdoing it.

But it's now February 28, my month as a guest has run out, so it will just have to wait.