. >> our next pair of students with complementary questions, sara aggarzi and connie capone. would you come to the mike own? sara is a sophomore and political science mayor? the school of arts and sciences and con sni a junior in the school of arts and sciences, her major is political science and journalism and media studies and she is minoring in french language. sara, would you begin? >> good afternoon. my question is, how does one balance their own personal opinions on a case but at the same time try to remain objective with the law and legal precedents? is there a balance between the two or are they distinguishably different? >> well, let me start with the realization that you have to have as a judge. what are laws? laws are the society's definition of how it will balance the competing interests of people so the first example of that that i give everybody is a law that affects every single person in this room when they go outside. you go to the corner, you stop at the red light. why? there's a law that tells you if you don't you're going to get a ticket. so why do we have

>> our next pair of students with complimentary questions, sahar and connie capone. uld you come to the microphone? sahar is a sophomore and political science major in the school of arts and sciences and connie is a junior in the school of arts and sciences. her major is political science and journalism and media studies and she is minoring in french lang wauag language. sahar would you begin? >> good afternoon. my question is how does one balance their own personal opinions on a case but at the same time try to remain objective with the law and legal precedence? is there a balance between the two or are they distinguishably different? >> well, let me start with a realization that you have to have as a judge. what are laws? laws are the society's definition of how it will balance the competing interest of people. so the first example that i give everyone is a law that affects every single person in this room when they go outside. you go to the corner, you stop at the red light. why? there's a law that tells you if you don't, you're going to get a ticket. all right? so