How do we train those who are called to intervene when justice has been violated and to restore balance to that violated justice? How does the university cultivate the necessary elements, how does it train lawyers?
"The first thing a lawyer should study is an understanding of life. How does today’s lawyer approach questions of the inner life, and how should he approach them? Not merely by relying on experts. He stands before these matters as a complete amateur. Only a deep insight into the life of the soul is capable of enabling one to draft a law. But it is also the only thing capable of judging those who have deviated from the law. You can only put yourself in the place of the law of human life if you have studied the science of the soul. I do not wish to speak of the theosophical view of the development of the human soul. The world is still too far behind to have a deeper understanding of the more intimate problems of life. But everyone should actually realize what is meant by the words: true study of the soul and of social life.
This should be the foundation, the first instruction that a law student receives in college: the study of human nature in the broadest sense. Only then, when he has studied human beings as such, including their souls, and in a sphere as ethereally pure as that in which the natural scientist attempts to study scientific problems, only then, when he can immerse himself in the life of the soul in a mystical sense, only then is he ready to address genuine questions of the soul—questions that have an impact and are organized according to a plan in public life."
Read more: Rudolf Steiner, The Origin and Purpose of Humanity, Basic Concepts of Spiritual Science, GA 53, Lecture 21. Law School and Theosophy, 18 May 1905, Berlin.