As a collection, the Learned Handmade Plates represent an album of the American Law School Experience.  The plates are snapshots from the core of law as it is taught.  Most law students have been expected to memorize most of the cases depicted here.  They have been evaluated on the basis of how well they can reproduce the information these cases contain.  Twice a year, the American Law Student binges on these cases and others like them, ravenously cramming them into their minds, only to purge them out again onto the pages of a final exam.  Once the exam is submitted, the cases begin their precipitous dissolve.

The Supremes on the other hand, remain.  They have established permanent settlements in the imagination of the American Law Student.  They are fetish objects, things to be held in adulation and contempt, to be stared into but never penetrated.  In this sense, the Supremes are oracles. To the American Law Student, though, the Supremes are also the stuff of fantasy sports leagues.  They are to be ranked across a spectrum of categories and then drafted onto imaginary teams as law students match wits on the vicarious gridiron of the so-called water cooler.

But of course the Court itself is not a sports league. The decisions reached shape the scope of our freedoms and obligations.  The plates ask the eater/viewer to engage with the law as it is made by judges.  They turn the act of eating into an act of civic engagement.

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