Beyond judging: considering the critical role of non-judicial actors to a functioning legal system

The remote and more general aspects of the law are those which give it universal interest. It is through them that you not only become a great master in your calling but connect your subject with the universe and catch an echo of the infinite, a glimpse of its unfathomable process, a hint of the universal law. Holmes, OW, The Path of the Law, 10 Harv.L.Rev. 457 (1897)