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Bonus excerpt: Ian Samuel on being Left in the law

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Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

An excerpt from today's bonus episode, available in full to our Patreon patrons, in which Current Affairs legal editor Oren Nimni and social media editor Vanessa A. Bee interview Indiana Law professor, First Mondays host, and rising legal star Ian Samuel about being a lefty in the law. Discussed: the three's lefty origin stories, the consequences of a Kavanaugh nomination, why the law is a conservatizing profession, and more.

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0:00.0

Hello listeners, Pete Davis here. Just slotting into your podcast feed to share that over at the

0:08.4

bird feed, we have our first ever, current affairs, program, interview. It's with lefty legal

0:16.4

star and first Monday's host Ian Samuel, who just was in the lefty shark tank pitching Supreme Court packing.

0:24.4

Legal editor Orrin Nimney and social media editor Vanessa A.B.

0:28.4

Interview him about being a lefty in the law.

0:31.6

They share their lefty origin stories.

0:33.6

They talk about the consequences of the Brett Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court, and they ponder why the law is such a conservatizing profession.

0:44.0

If you want to hear the interview, become a patron at our Patreon page.

0:47.7

That's patreon.com slash current affairs.

0:50.9

Here's how it works.

0:52.0

You give us $5 a month, and you get access to the bird feed,

0:56.3

which houses all of our bonus episodes and will house all of our bonus interviews like this one.

1:03.1

We'll be back next week with a new main episode on this feed, but for now, here's an excerpt

1:09.6

from our interview with Ian Samuel.

1:13.9

I do think that on the whole law and law school and the legal profession are incredibly

1:20.7

conservatizing forces because it is literally, and I said this recently, and a lot of people

1:26.0

got super mad at me, but it's like literally true.

1:28.3

It is basically the job of the legal profession to like be the wise administrators of capital.

1:34.0

Like that's the job, right?

1:35.4

And like it's not the job for everybody, right?

1:37.2

And so the three groups of lawyers that have always loved the most for a variety of reasons, they have a lot in common are public defenders, direct service immigration

1:45.8

defense people, and labor side labor lawyers. Because all of them have a sort of similar attitude,

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