{"id":619,"date":"2023-08-01T21:07:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T01:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/?page_id=619"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:11:18","slug":"divine-injustice-myths-of-good-lawyers-other-legal-fictions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/in-print\/volume-14-issue-1-winter-2022\/divine-injustice-myths-of-good-lawyers-other-legal-fictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Injustice: Myths of Good Lawyers &amp; Other Legal Fictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\">When former President Trump\u2019s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, invoked a rhetoric of judicial <span class=\"s2\">\u201c<\/span>combat<span class=\"s2\">\u201d <\/span>following the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, his words were an incantation, at once summoning centuries of terror and images of medieval warfare. But, by contextualizing this moment in the blood and birthright that underlie U.S. settler law, one can immediately position Giuliani\u2019s comment as merely the latest in a his-tory of divinely unjust lawyering. Across this piece, I employ the phrase <span class=\"s2\">\u201c<\/span>divine injustice<span class=\"s2\">\u201d <\/span>to name this trend and to interrogate the violent irony of a U.S. legal system situated upon legacies of faith and fear, reflecting on my own lived experiences in entering this profession of prophets and phantoms. This piece proceeds in two parts: (1) First, I ground this discussion in the historical origins of U.S. legal prophecy-making and patterns of legal hauntings; (2) second, I reflect on the forms of divine violence that characterized my legal education, with a focus on the calls by liberation movements for our collective unimagining of legal structures. As this piece makes clear, the ever-recurring narrative of U.S. lawyers as <span class=\"s2\">\u201c<\/span>prophets<span class=\"s2\">\u201d <\/span>of justice is by no means random; it is the predictable outcome of a legal system established through the assertion of divine rule, entrenched white supremacy, and judicially constructed faith and fear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/08\/GT-GCRP230004.pdf\">Continue Reading Divine Injustice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When former President Trump\u2019s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, invoked a rhetoric of judicial \u201ccombat\u201d following the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, his words were an incantation, at once summoning centuries of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9839,"featured_media":0,"parent":593,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-619","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/619\/revisions\/962"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/mcrp-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}