(Commentary by Elizabeth Dobbins, a graduating student at the University of Virginia School of Law) In the beginning of law school, everything you learn swirls around in confusion and sometimes contradiction: You hear professors talk about larger policy objectives, you read opinions in cases that call for a dictionary — no, a legal dictionary — and you can’t believe that almost nothing you’ve learned previously applies to your present study of the law. It’s easy to get bogged down in it all, and that’s when professors use the following phrase to encourage st...