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MaxKingsleyFirstEssay 3 - 19 Feb 2023 - Main.EbenMoglen
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-- By MaxKingsley - 15 Feb 2023 | | | The 1L curriculum ultimately leads students to feel like the law has no place for them, like their value should be determined through grades, and like their voices are not warranted. This makes students feel alienated, invisible, and self-less. I propose that a good start to restore selfness in law school would be to allow students the freedom to choose their 1L classes. While foundational courses may still be required, students should be allowed to take these in conjunction with the classes they have interest in. Thus, students would see the bigger picture more easily, not to learn to “think like an attorney” but to learn to think like the attorney that they want to become. Additionally, we should extract the fangs that the socratic method has sunk into the law school system and instead allow students to make their own contributions to class, to direct the discussion in a way that leads to broader understandings of the processes, and people, that comprise the law. Finally, we should stop focusing on grades as an indicator of success and instead focus on students’ individuality. These steps, in my opinion, would not completely eradicate the feeling of selfnessless and alienation that law students feel during 1L, but they would be a start. | |
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One route to improving the draft would be to put it in contact with some (indeed, any) source of information or analysis you don't owe entirely to your own seventeen weeks of experience in law school. Sources, influences, external perspectives, data—all have their place and their place right now isn't here.
Here you are writing on a subject you chose, in a course you chose, where the grading system is devalued and methods of interactive evaluation are applied, complaining that law school isn't like this. You aren't wrong, except when you are, and—respectfully—tell me about it. If this is the opportunity you want and the change you wish to see, then how about we use it? Why not write about what would matter under what are in fact our conditions here?
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