Law Practice
Jun. 25, 2019
Pick up the phone, please
As a law professor, I have realized we need to teach students a skill they by and large lack when they enroll: how to use the telephone.
Frank H. Wu
President Designate
Queens College
Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.
As a law professor, I have realized we need to teach students a skill they by and large lack when they enroll: how to use the telephone. I am surprised that this task has become necessary, but consultation with my peers convinces me that many young people nowadays not only regard the phone, a regular phone and not a smartphone deployed primarily for purposes other than talking, as obsolete, but also approach the device with a certain dread. Although some of us who are more mature might lam...
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