The Great Courses - Law School for Everyone - Taught By Multiple Professors
Category: Lecture
Narrator: Taught By Multiple Professors
Tags: Lecture, Documentary, Education, Adults
To many people, the law is both powerful and mysterious. We depend on lawyers to help us navigate rules, standards, and procedural codes that have been around for hundreds of years. Because we depend on their specialized skills in argumentation, logic, and critical thinking, we may wonder how they come to know so much about the inner workings of the law., The answer: law school. The refined skills lawyers wield every day in courtrooms across the country are the result of years of study. As much as wed like to cultivate these very same skills, the truth is that you cannot know how a lawyer thinks and works without studying the law itself., Even if you have no intention of joining the legal profession, learning how American law works, and how lawyers and judges operate within that law, is a critical part of any well-rounded citizens understanding of one of the central foundations of the American experiment., Two things, however, keep many of us from attending law school: money and time.
