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I’m a law professor. I teach criminal law and I teach constitutional history and I specialize in the death penalty. So, in effect, I teach what I don’t understand. That’s what keeps me in it. If I ever fully understood what I taught, I’d be bored by it. I’ve taught the same course in theory for 30 years and 60 times, but it’s new. I mean, it’s -- we delve into questions of responsibility. And so it’s about human nature, it’s about society, it’s about responsibility, it’s about autonomy, it’s about community. It just invokes some of the deepest themes, and from a disparate set of universes, and so it’s -- to me, I’m just a highly paid student. Really, the bottom line is, if you want to know what I do, I get paid to study.

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