Life prepared me in a most bizarre way for becoming a judge. If judicial office had been my goal I was doing everything right...eight years of study and three degrees including a doctorate in law, a decade of busy practice as an advocate at the Cape Town Bar, and, later, earnestly teaching law in three continents and publishing several books, some scholarly and some autobiographical. Yet as far as the actual impact of the law on my life was concerned, everything was wrong... ...The fact is that for much of my life I lived simultaneously as a lawyer and an outlaw.
