Lawyers: creative social architects?

I love this. It speaks to all sorts of truths about law and lawyers. But in particular, it shines a light on what, at heart, they are really all about. People. And more specifically, how to manage the unending truth that people are terrible at getting on with one another (and their planet) and need to find ways of handling that fact. As Fuller explains in his essay, there are different ways of achieving social order. It can be through laws, created and imposed by those with authority (top down). It can be through contracts agreed between individuals (horizontal). It may involve enforcing rights through the courts; or it could include voluntary processes like mediation or arbitration. Whatever form it takes these are all, as Fuller puts it, ways of “fitting into some workable design the relations of [people] to one another”. And to the extent that lawyers have, for centuries, been involved in designing the processes and procedures to make these workable, they have been involved as creative architects of a system to keep our relationships on track. <a href="https://chrissimkins.medium.com/lawyers-creative-social-architects-77dcd4cb2415">Learn More</a>