PSCI 4396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Law School Admission Test, Grutter V. Bollinger, Microsoft Onenote
22 Feb 2016
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Law school has very little to do about learning the law. To understand how law school functions, you need to know two things. It is to toughen you up, get you ready for professional world. Nobody cares about your personal ideas, care about performance. Law schools exist for the university to make money. Trying to wring efficiencies out of the school. The way the law is taught now is not the way it has always been done. Us system is pretty unique compared to the rest of the world. Undergraduate degree, then work under a master lawyer. Learn the bar while learning the ins and outs of a law firm. This changed due to the explosion of litigation and need for more lawyers. Medicine was also starting to move to a professional structure vs. apprenticeship. In order to practice law, need to pass bar exam, need to have accredited law school to sit for exam.
