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Mon 07 Jul 2009Legal activism no substitute for politics - McDowell
THE FOLLOWING is an edited version of remarks by Michael McDowell SC on the appointment of himself, Paul Gallagher SC and Michael Collins SC as adjunct professors in UCD’s School of Business and Law
I THINK that there is sometimes an inherent tendency among lawyers, when gathered together, be they judges, practitioners or academics, to view the world and the society in which we live primarily as a legal construct. That society should be based upon “the rule of law” seems axiomatic. To lawyers it seems so very obvious that the alternative to law is anarchy, oppression and arbitrary cruelty and misfortune.
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