A pillar of Athenian democracy was sortition: selecting officials at random among a large pool of valid candidates. It can be very effective at preventing tribalism and corruption.
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Why the law degree? Government by lawyers is part of the problem.
Law is like source code for society. If your job is to make laws, you should be able to read and write legal code. That said, we could get away with only *some* of them having law degrees.
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The law/code parallel is deeply flawed, and leads endless programmers astray. Legislators have access to legal specialists and legislative aides, but the rules we live by should not be written by a specialist caste, but by people with broader life experience (including lawyers)
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Even if you hold to the law/code parallel, consider how many problems in the way software interacts with the world are the result of having programmers make the key decisions in products that broadly affect society
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