Even the top schools are making moves to make their respective curricula more practical nowadays. Classes like Nation Building: International Human Rights in Transitional Societies, Law & Econ Development: India, and Uncensored Hist of Int'l Law (which are all real) sound like bullshit undergrad political science classes and don't have any business in a law school curriculum imo.Desert Fox wrote:Also, I agree that TTT's are more practical, if by practical you mean they teach the bar for three years because their students are waterheads who can't learn it in two months like everyone else.
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I think actually practical things like practicums, clinics, and externship credit are great. But I don't see much evidence that TTT's do much of it.chimp wrote:Even the top schools are making moves to make their respective curricula more practical nowadays. Classes like Nation Building: International Human Rights in Transitional Societies, Law & Econ Development: India, and Uncensored Hist of Int'l Law (which are all real) sound like bullshit undergrad political science classes and don't have any business in a law school curriculum imo.Desert Fox wrote:Also, I agree that TTT's are more practical, if by practical you mean they teach the bar for three years because their students are waterheads who can't learn it in two months like everyone else.
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I agree for the most part, but I think it really depends on how you define the term TTT and which "TTT" you are referring to. I feel like most clinics, externships, and practicums are very impractical at just about every law school, but more so at top schools. How is a Guantanamo Defense Clinic going to give me valuable experience that I can bring to my first job? Law schools have been making changes across the board, but who knows whether or not this will make any difference?Desert Fox wrote:I think actually practical things like practicums, clinics, and externship credit are great. But I don't see much evidence that TTT's do much of it.chimp wrote:Even the top schools are making moves to make their respective curricula more practical nowadays. Classes like Nation Building: International Human Rights in Transitional Societies, Law & Econ Development: India, and Uncensored Hist of Int'l Law (which are all real) sound like bullshit undergrad political science classes and don't have any business in a law school curriculum imo.Desert Fox wrote:Also, I agree that TTT's are more practical, if by practical you mean they teach the bar for three years because their students are waterheads who can't learn it in two months like everyone else.
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