Entertainment & Sports
Jul. 22, 2022
Stream it Tonight! Legally Blonde (2001)
Undoubtedly most viewers will leave this film knowing more about the chemistry of perm maintenance than about the first year of law school. But perhaps the film’s most indelible take-away is Woods’ humanity.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Why watch? A shower can be a dangerous place to be, whether you are a thief who stops overnight in a creepy motel or an alleged witness to murder cross-examined by a first-year law student.
Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) is a fashionista expert in TV soap opera plots who is improbably admitted to Harvard Law School. She turns out to be such a good student that her criminal law instructor sleazy Prof. Callahan puts her on the student team ...
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