Two separate and distinct phrases, each ascribed to a particular jurist, merit mention in a single sentence: The law is a jealous mistress and a seamless web. At first glance each clause on either side of the conjunctive appears unrelated to the other but for the common reference to “law.” Their intimate connection, however, cannot be obviated. Because the law in its application and theoretical development (jurisprudence) purports to address some of the most delicate and difficult issues that pervade all societies, ranging from the imposition of a death penalty through the legal status of abortion, to equally important concerns in the realms of family law, international disputes, free speech, freedom of assembly, the separation of church and state, and the propriety of juridic entities and attendant liabilities of virtually every ilk (to name just a few), the law cannot help but be all-consuming and seductive because of the very nature of her transcendence subject matter. Similarly, it would be a misapprehension of the organizing principles that fashion legal subject matter to conclude that most of these issues indeed have “answers” that are certain, definitive, pristine, and universal: far from it. Hence, the “seamless web” envelops and enraptures both the practitioner and the theoretician. Like an encounter with infinity, the law has neither a beginning nor an end. It neither progresses nor degenerates but rather changes at times in fascinating ways that appear to defy man's wit.