The Other Path of the Law

When we study law we are not studying a mystery but a well known profession.... The reason why it is a profession, why people will pay lawyers to argue for them or to advise them, is that in societies like ours the command of the public force is intrusted to the judges in certain cases, and the whole power of the state will be put forth, if necessary, to carry out their judgments and decrees.... The object of our study, then, is prediction, the prediction of the incidence of the public force through the instrumentality of the courts.1