reached a point

I believe that Law studies in Portugal suffer exactly from the same ills as Theology in the sixteenth century. Theologians wrote in Latin and they usually suffered from terminal verborrhea, a huge disproportion between the number of words and the number of ideas in their discourses, if there were any ideas at all. Their sole purpose was to use words to masquerade reality so as to mislead the population in order to keep their jobs, their reputations and their privileges. They lost all contact with the idea of God, as modern Portuguese jurists have lost all contact with the idea of Justice. In the sixteenth century the Church paid it dearly with the Reformation. We are paying it with the catastrophe in our system of justice. We have reached a point where judges are being beaten in their own courtrooms.