Legal Education
Apr. 5, 2023
What exactly is the point of law school?
Many of our academic institutions have formal rules protecting free speech. But illiberal or craven administrators often refuse to enforce those rules, and students who care little for free speech routinely stamp it out.
Chris Arledge
Partner
Ellis George Cipollone LLP
2121 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles , CA 90067
Email: carledge@egcfirm.com
In a recent oral argument, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito joked that he "went to a law school where I didn't learn any law." Alito was exaggerating, of course. Yet most practicing lawyers know exactly what he means. Although you learn some law in the form of black-letter legal rules, and certainly become proficient at reading cases, most law students learn almost nothing about the practice of law. Indeed, the "better" the law school, the less about lawyerin...
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