Academic

Webs, Tapestry, Life and Law Schools

By Bridget Crawford

With the web metaphor on my mind, today I thought of this quotation from Justice Sandra Day O?Connor differently than I have before:

We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.

Here’s a reworking aimed at a law school faculty, with apologies to the Justice:

No faculty member creates a school’s reputation alone … and whatever reputation a school has is the result of the whole tapestry of the school’s history and all the weavings of individual threads from one member of the law school community to the other that creates a reputation.

-Bridget Crawford

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on November 22, 2008 (boomark / email).