REUTERS — New York Law School dean Anthony Crowell was driving to Florida on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob broke into the U.S. Capitol to disrupt Congress’ certification of the 2020 election results. He pulled into a suburban Virginia parking lot as the events unfolded across the Potomac and tried to express his outrage and dismay in an email to his law school community. Across the country, other legal educators were also grappling with how to respond.  In the days that followed, a theme emerged in discussions among several law deans: Democracy is fragile, and “without lawyers — what they are charged to do and the constitutional oath they take — we have no democracy,” Crowell said in an interview. Deans from 171 law schools condemned the attack in an open letter. Then Mark Alexander, dean of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, assembled a group of them to write a book about the events.