Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III welcomes Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren at the Democratic National Convention. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
First day of law school. First class. The goal: escape unscathed. Three seconds in, I get the first question:
‘Mr. Kennedy, what is the definition of assumpsit?’
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‘Uhhh…’
‘Mr. Kennedy, you realize that assumpsit was the first word in your reading?’
‘Yes. I circled it because I didn’t know what it meant.’
‘Mr. Kennedy, do you own a dictionary? That’s what people use when they don’t know a word.’
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I never showed up unprepared for Professor Elizabeth Warren again.
—Representative Joseph Kennedy III (D-Mass.), speaking in prime time at last night’s DNC to introduce his now-colleague, Senator Elizabeth Warren. She apparently was a big fan of the Socratic method… ouch. Kennedy did meet his wife in then-Professor Warren’s class at Harvard Law School, so the experience couldn’t have been all bad.