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Bronx Bum wrote:I feel like there's not enough stress on scholarship. Sure, we are learning how to practice (i.e. reading cases and analyzing them) but we need a foundation. Instead of "thinking like a lawyer" on 1L exams, we should be learning the foundations and the history of the law. Scholarship is the single most important element of real practice. We need to know the law through scholarship. Basically, like they tell us to use secondary sources first in LRW. Finals should consist of papers, etc. even if it is still curved. Brian Leiter said recently that judges and lawyers often turn to him on controversial aspects of the law. Scholars always have insight and are the source of all practitioner's legal work. Maybe I'm alone on this one, but law school is too practical. Why do we need to be ready to practice law after 1L? No idea.

ph14 wrote:

Bronx Bum wrote:I feel like there's not enough stress on scholarship. Sure, we are learning how to practice (i.e. reading cases and analyzing them) but we need a foundation. Instead of "thinking like a lawyer" on 1L exams, we should be learning the foundations and the history of the law. Scholarship is the single most important element of real practice. We need to know the law through scholarship. Basically, like they tell us to use secondary sources first in LRW. Finals should consist of papers, etc. even if it is still curved. Brian Leiter said recently that judges and lawyers often turn to him on controversial aspects of the law. Scholars always have insight and are the source of all practitioner's legal work. Maybe I'm alone on this one, but law school is too practical. Why do we need to be ready to practice law after 1L? No idea.

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fathergoose wrote:

ph14 wrote:

Bronx Bum wrote:I feel like there's not enough stress on scholarship. Sure, we are learning how to practice (i.e. reading cases and analyzing them) but we need a foundation. Instead of "thinking like a lawyer" on 1L exams, we should be learning the foundations and the history of the law. Scholarship is the single most important element of real practice. We need to know the law through scholarship. Basically, like they tell us to use secondary sources first in LRW. Finals should consist of papers, etc. even if it is still curved. Brian Leiter said recently that judges and lawyers often turn to him on controversial aspects of the law. Scholars always have insight and are the source of all practitioner's legal work. Maybe I'm alone on this one, but law school is too practical. Why do we need to be ready to practice law after 1L? No idea.

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too generous

bk187 wrote:Shitty troll is shitty.

An attorney asks some first year associates, "What steps do you take to accomplish a merger?" (already a question so open-ended that it's virtually unanswerable). The answer: "draft a certificate of merger and file it with the secretary of state."

NeighborGuy wrote:Notsureifserious either, but I'll take a shot anyway.

I'm guessing because most lawyers will only ever deal with practical matters. I mean really, how many of us are going to have to deal with issues that require a deep, thorough knowledge of legal history and theory? Are clients going to storm into our offices demanding we explain the nuances of the old English ordeal system? Probably not, they're going to want us to know to make rain for them.

Also, how many of us actually care? Not me. We do need scholars for those heavy questions, but we don't need an army of them; just a few for the rest of us to consult every once in a lifetime.

ph14 wrote:

Bronx Bum wrote:I feel like there's not enough stress on scholarship. Sure, we are learning how to practice (i.e. reading cases and analyzing them) but we need a foundation. Instead of "thinking like a lawyer" on 1L exams, we should be learning the foundations and the history of the law. Scholarship is the single most important element of real practice. We need to know the law through scholarship. Basically, like they tell us to use secondary sources first in LRW. Finals should consist of papers, etc. even if it is still curved. Brian Leiter said recently that judges and lawyers often turn to him on controversial aspects of the law. Scholars always have insight and are the source of all practitioner's legal work. Maybe I'm alone on this one, but law school is too practical. Why do we need to be ready to practice law after 1L? No idea.

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downing wrote:Law school is fine the way it is, except that it needs to be one year shorter.

downing wrote:Law school is fine the way it is, except that it needs to be one year shorter.

Gettingstarted1928 wrote:

downing wrote:Law school is fine the way it is, except that it needs to be one year shorter.

+1 The length of undergrad and law school = racket.

It's such bullshit that students are having to go into all this debt when post high school education could be cut in half.

joemoviebuff wrote:

Bronx Bum wrote:Instead of "thinking like a lawyer" on 1L exams, we should be learning the foundations and the history of the law. Scholarship is the single most important element of real practice. We need to know the law through scholarship.

r6_philly wrote:

Gettingstarted1928 wrote:

downing wrote:Law school is fine the way it is, except that it needs to be one year shorter.

+1 The length of undergrad and law school = racket.

It's such bullshit that students are having to go into all this debt when post high school education could be cut in half.

Barrier of entry would be too low then. Can't make big salary that way.