I did not begin my legal education with a clear picture of where I wanted to be. In many ways, I was and still am a student of science. Unlike many students drawn to law, who are motivated by curiosity about legal systems, fairness, institutions, and how decisions are made when interests collide, law was a difficult choice for me. It required me to decode the logic in legislation and understand the science in it. Law was not a language I spoke fluently at first; it was someth