justicefishy wrote:Penn makes a big deal about being able to take a ton of courses outside the law school and, at least to us 0L's, makes it seem very easy and encouraged to get a joint degree in something like business or public policy. Maybe U-Chicago has something similar?
I mean, I know that at UChicago it's very easy to take classes all around the university. I'm not sure what it's like at Penn. Maybe they really are very good in this regard, or maybe their admissions office is very good at advertising. For example, if you want to do interdisciplinary stuff, then you could your schedule could look something like this:
Econ
Fall: Price Theory I (co-taught by Nobel Prize winners Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy), Economic Analysis of The Law (taught by a law professor with a UChicago econ phd), Law & Econ Workshop (co-taught by a couple law profs with Harvard / UChicago econ phd degrees), and Population and the Economy (taught by Nobel Prize winner Robert Fogel).
Winter: Price Theory II (again with Becker and Murphy), Law & Econ workshop (extends over multiple quarters), Introduction to Empirical Microeconomic Research (with Freakonomics author Steven Levitt), and Monetary Economics (with Nobel Prize winner Bob Lucas).
Spring: Behavioral Law & Economics seminar, Law & Econ workshop, Topics in General Equilibrium, Default, Bankruptcy, and Applications (taught by an econ professor), and Research Seminar on the Quanitative Study of Inequality (taught by Nobel Prize winner James Heckman).
Public Policy / Political Science
Autumn: Health Law And Policy (taught at the Harris School of Public Policy), Law, Politics, Economics and the Making of the Modern Middle East (taught at Harris), Investment Management (a class open to Harris students and law students).
Winter: From Health Policy to Clinical Practice (taught at Harris), Decisions and Organizations (taught at Harris), Public Finance and Public Policy I (taught at Harris), Law and Politics: U.S. Courts as Political Institutions (open to law students and polisci grad students).
Spring: Mixed Methods Approaches to Policy Research (taught at Harris), Health Care and Health Care Reform (taught at Harris), American Law and the Rhetoric of Race (open to law students and polisci grad students).
And I could do more (with philosophy, business, etc.), but you get the idea. By the way, the schedules above are things that a student could actually be eligible for. The ability to do these sorts of things is understated because UChicago says that you can only take four classes or so outside of the law school. However, many courses are technically cross-listed between departments. So you could go over to the business school, the econ department, the divinity school, the public-policy school, the history department, etc and find classes that are technically listed as a LAW course—so you don't have to fill one of the four potential "non-law" courses.
