Category: Law School Courses
Law School Courses
Below is Orin Kerr writing in The Volokh Conspiracy blog on law school courses. I am glad to see that evidence is voted the most useful, but can’t understand how it is an elective! In a rebuttal, Viva Chen, in the Careerist, sarcastically notes, “As a former corporate lawyer, I must say that evidence was totally useless, though it comes in handy for nitpicking court scenes in movies or on TV.” This is the problem with critiquing law schools and their offerings. Most of the time graduates evaluate the importance of a course depending on the type of law they are practicing. A good example of the hammer and nail analogy. I am as guilty of that as anyone. I relentlessly push evidence and trial advocacy because that is what I have practiced for over forty years and all I care about.