I’m currently reading the autobiography of a developing country lawyer, and half the book is basically “we fought this incredibly complicated case and won, and then the powers that be changed the rules of the game on us.”
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And it’s all very serious and consequential and cool, but at the same time there’s a voice at the back of my head going “wow, the Law is *such* a made up thing.”
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(And then I go back to reading books about business, which is just as made up, but then I don’t think about it as much.)
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there’s an important distinction I think, which is that business at least admits that renewal and rebirth are part of the process. Law otoh positions itself as a sort of priestly class, they deal in Justice, which is supposed to be Moral and Righteous and Good
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YES! Wow you put that so well — I was wondering why law felt so much more made up than business.
The different forms of address and court etiquette (judge being "Your Honour", opposing counsel being "my learned friend") also lends an air of grandiosity to it.
The law society also refers to law as a "noble profession" which IMO is extremely self-congratulatory.