Now when you go to jail-- I mean when you go to court, slaves of course can't represent themselves in court at all, they don't have any legal standing.

如果你进监狱。。。,我是说如果你上法院，奴隶当然不能在法庭上代表自己，他们没有任何法律地位。

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He was also a major figure in the Legal Realism school that recognized human failings and human behavior and the establishment of laws.

他同时也是法律现实主义学派的代表人物,该学派承认人性弱点和人们的行为,以及制定法律的重要性

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It's not merely a negative thing the way I think modern ideas about law, as for instance, represented in the American Constitution are, which is to say, its function is to prevent wrong doing, to punish wrong doing.

我的理解是,这里的法律,不仅仅指当今的法律条款,比如美国宪法所代表的那些内容,也就是,行使防范错误行为,以及惩罚错误行为的职能

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