When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

  • -- Anne-Marie Slaughter 斯劳特

当我曾经作为一名法学教授教授民事诉讼时,我会在一开始就告诉我的学生,民事诉讼是仪式化战斗的礼仪。这句话并非出自我之口,它抓住了一个要点,即和平、发达的社会通过法律而不是武力解决争端。

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Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

这并不是说辩护可以被当作一种考验,因为诉讼形式,特别是债务,忽视了法律规定的义务与当事人意愿所创造的义务之间的根本区别。

My life in general and the thoughts it beholds are never dedicated to a certain road. Rather they flow with the wind, changing directions as the mountains steer them sideways.

总的来说,我的生活和它所包含的思想从来没有献身于某条道路。相反,它们随风而动,随着山脉的倾斜而改变方向。

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

肤浅的人认为自由是对一切法律和约束的解放。智者在其中看到的恰恰相反,是强有力的法律法则。

It's hard to look in the mirror these days when everyone has everything you'd rather be.

如今,当每个人都拥有你想成为的一切时,你很难照镜子。