Choose any three questions and complete than. In all your answers, you must make connections to our discussion, class activities, and readings. For further clarification, this evaluation may NOT be returned by email, left in my mailbox, office, or given to the faculty secretaries. The suggested length is 6 double-spaced pages for the whole test. Please read the evaluation criteria from the course syllabus before completing this test.
1. Critically discuss the LSAT as one of the most important requirements for admission to Law School.
2. Read the following paragraph from the article "How Not To Succeed in Law School" by James D. Gordon. Critically analyze it, and write your own analysis of this paragraph.
You will need to take an intensive, eight-week course, costing a drillion dollars, to prepare for the bar exam. Wait a minute, you say. Why did I borrow ten drillion dollars (exceeding the national debt of some third-world countries) and spend three years of my life going to law school? Didn't law school teach me the law? No, you idiot. Law school's purpose is not to teach you the law.
Law school taught you to THINK LIKE A LAWYER, unless you attended one of the elite schools, and then it taught you to think like a medieval philosopher, or a business school dropout. So you have to take the bar preparation course.
3. Critically discuss the nature of Law School education, e.g., learning goals, curriculum, evaluation, teaching method, etc.
4. Critically discuss the National Committee on Accreditations' (NCA) process for the recognition of foreign legal credentials.
5. Critically discuss the traditional partnership track in big law firms. Begin your analysis with the recruitment process.
6. Choose a Canadian law school and write your admissions essay for that school. The subtext must be that you have the academic and non-academic skills to succeed in law school. The text must be a story about an aspect of your life.
7. Find and watch a film dealing with a legal education issue discussed in class. The legal education issue may be the central plot of the whole film or the theme of a scene or a series of scenes. Briefly summarize the legal education issue and analyze it.
8. Find a peer-reviewed article from one of the library databases about law school or law school admissions. Briefly summarize it and critically discuss it.
9. Read James C Hathaway's article "The Mythical Meritocracy of Law School Admissions published in the Journal of Legal Education Vol. 34, No. 1 (March 1984), pp. 86-96, available at JSTOR database and critically analyze it.
10. Find a news article about law school admissions in Canada. Briefly summarize it and critically discuss it.
11. Find a news article about law school admissions in the United States. Briefly summarize it and critically discuss it.
12. Find a news article about law school pedagogy in the United States or Canada. Briefly summarize it and critically discuss it.