Legal Analysis Topic 1: Law Can be Like Math
- Author
- Halle Hara - Law School Playbook
- Published
- Thu 11 Jul 2019
- Episode Link
- https://www.lawschoolplaybook.com/podcast/dear-student-1-h36e2-6zecr-r9sem-9kjf4-x4mnd-2hfgf-7jxt4-pbsj6-9z3j6-8jr95
Today we will begin our discussion of legal analysis. We have all heard it time and time again: the purpose of law school is to train you to “think law a lawyer.” As the infamous Professor Kingsfield told his students in the 1973 film The Paper Chase, you come to law school “with a skull full a mush, and you leave thinking like a lawyer.” But what does that mean exactly? Do lawyers really think different than other people? What does it mean to “think like a lawyer”? And, for that matter, what is legal reasoning?
