Putting the cool back into law school
From the monthly archives:
This is the fourth in a series on law school curves. Read part three here. The quality of the class and the students can tell you a lot about how closely a curve is going to track the published number or the historical record. But for my money, the best predictor of how a curve [...]
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This is the third in a series of posts on law school curves. Read part two here. Let’s return to the original quote that kicked this off: During my run, I realized that I am only irritable in my easy classes. The problem I have with easy classes is the curve. Easy classes mean arbitrary [...]
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Right now is a difficult time for law students to be thankful about much of anything. On a micro level, finals are right around the corner and that means that outlines needs to be finished, reading needs to be completed, and papers need to be turned in. On a macro level, the economy is through [...]
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The US News and World Report law school rankings can be criticized for a lot of things, justly or unjustly. One of the just criticisms is that the rankings favor a certain type of law school. Unorthodox and new ideas about how to run a law school tend not to mesh very well with a [...]
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This is the second in a series about law school curves. Read part one here. Yesterday in the first part of this series, I took a look at just the curve itself and what it might mean when you approach finals. The gist is that when a class is on the high end of the [...]
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Thanksgiving is a stressful time for many people, but especially for law students. Thanksgiving for most people starts a month or so of excessive spending, excessive eating, and excessive time with people we really don’t care for, medicated by excessive alcohol. For law students, it means the start of finals, which means excessive work, excessive [...]
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I enjoy taking tests. I’ve never been shy about that fact. I’ve probably thought about taking tests more than just about anyone that doesn’t have a postgraduate degree in education. I will admit, without shame, that I enjoyed finals in law school better than the classes. As we get ready for another finals period, here [...]
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Being in law school with a family can be hard. The demands on students are bad enough without having to keep a spouse happy, keep a child feeling loved, and keeping a home rather than an apartment clean and functioning.? Even if you don’t have children or aren’t married, non-traditional students are much more likely [...]
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