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Originally posted by baltassoc
Bitch.
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Take your gratuitous name calling back to the FB.
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I didn't get my degree from a night school, either, but that just makes both of us stupid for wasting our money.
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Not true of all law school curriculums.
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Most students, however, did not.
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Not true of my school. We were required to take a few of them and even in the core classes, like torts and con law, we spent a large part of our class time discussing policy, the history/purpose of the legal system, ethics, why and in what ways the law should change to better serve our societal goals, etc. We even discussed that sort of stuff in insurance law or patent law classes. Anti-trust class was one big economics/economic policy course to a large degree. At least it was at my school.
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And the recognized societal value of my law degree does not come from those courses.
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The recognized societal value has nothing to do with whether something is an intellectual pursuit. A PhD in biology nowadays qualifies you to get a job that is little more than a lab tech, which is why our bio PhD programs are populated with people from third world countries. That doesn't mean getting a PhD in bio is not an intellectual pursuit.
Two different things.
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Even those who would value me having taken those courses know that they have to consult my transcript to confirm they are there; it can not be presumed from the mere fact I have a law degree.
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Not true of all law schools. See my comments above.
