Are Law Students Lazy?
That question, found via Instapundit, is based on a faulty assumption. The Prawf in question juxtaposes history grad students with law students, noting that law students typically won’t accept more then 50 pages of reading for a class, whereas history students will read 200 pages books in the same time frame. I’ve been both, and let me tell you, they are radically different types of material. I can sit down right now and be through a significant portion of a narrative of the North African campaign of World War II by lunch. But I’d be lucky to have adequately briefed Heller in all its intricacies in the same period.
Luckily, the commenters have made just that point.
Also, it is important to remember that history grad students will spend a lot more time in seminar style classes then law students will. A seminar style class lends itself to one type of thought/reading/comprehension, whereas the constant fear of getting called on for a socratic-style interrogation requires something quite different.
Tags: Law School
3:21 pm
ohwilleke
Law school is easier to be lazy in. While not all law students are lazy, one can get away without doing homework in law school and still pass far more easily. The stuff you need to pass the bar, you get in the bar review anyway.