Mark
V. Tushnet
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law,
Georgetown University
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law,
Georgetown University
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Lawyers
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Mark
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Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University |
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[Thurgood] Marshall was in law school, [Charles] Houston had brought to
the Howard Law School ideas that were being developed at Harvard, where
Houston went to Law School. Those ideas treated law as a mechanism for social
design. Houston called that, as other people had, lawyers as social engineers,
and Marshall deeply believed that that's what law should be: the aim of
law was to help construct a good society, just in the way that the aim of
an engineer was to construct a bridge that would work well.
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