Groupie Disappointment

This whole week, much excitement had been building up to today.

Today was supposed to be the day that I drew breath in the same room as Justices Scalia and Breyer, who were scheduled to be on a discussion panel at the law school today.



Of lesser significance to me, the Right Honorouble Lord Rodger of Earlsferry and the Right Honorouble Lord Scott of Foscote were supposed to be on the panel too. Yeah, the English and their "titles." They are actually called Lords of Law. The big question on all the students' minds were, "Would they wear their wigs?"

But alas, though we rescheduled our Contracts class just to attend the panel, my dream of breathing in Justified(?) air was not to be realized.

The Ames courtroom was so crowded in Austin Hall that the "rest" of us had to watch the event live broadcasted in Langdell Hall. How anticlimactic. I might as well be watching the Justices on CNN.

The broadcast was of very poor quality. English accents are hard to understand in the first place, but add to that poor sound quality and picture delays and you get almost zero comprehension. And to make matters worse, the Right Honourable Lord Rodger of Earlsferry would NOT shut up!

Half way through I gave up and decided to go home. I'll maybe watch the rest on web cast.

And for the record, the Lords of Law did not wear wigs.
(They didn't even wear robes).