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May 19, 2023
Stream It Tonight! "The Paper Chase" (1973)
Aspiring law students used to be told to watch “Paper Chase” to prepare themselves, but the film doesn’t describe the 21st century law school experience.
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.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
W h y watch? Recall those terrifying days of the first year in law school in this immortal critique of legal education.
In the late 1960’s, James Hart (Timothy Bottoms) arrives at Harvard Law School. He’s clueless and doesn’t know that there was an assignment for his first c...
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