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To be lucky is to be the beneficiary of a random event, or more commonly of a series of such events (a “run”), rather than to possess something—“luck”—that alters the odds in one’s favor. In the expression “he made his own luck,” the word “luck” actually denotes its opposite; it denotes a reduction in randomness. Similarly, when we say that a judge’s decisions are in conformity with “the law,” we do not mean that we can put his decisions next to something called “law” and see whether they are the same. We mean that the determinants of the decisions were things that it is lawful for judges to
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