Today in family law Professor W told us what we already suspected:
Professor W: “The correlation between divorce grounds and the rate of divorce is weak. Sort of like the correlation between doing well in law school and doing well in practice… […]
…of course most of you won’t practice. You will become politicians. This is a good generalist education. That’s the only way we can justify graduating so many of you. You will become great actors and actresses, singers and trapeze artists…”
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Laura
March 22, 2010 at 2:47 pmI Prof. W. for the number of times she’s said stuff like that and totally made my day!
Laura
March 22, 2010 at 2:48 pmhmmm…your blog thought I was trying to code html. hah. That should say:
I [heart] Prof. W. for the number of times she’s said stuff like that and totally made my day!
Jansen
March 22, 2010 at 11:28 pmShe’s hilarious and old enough to be outrageous without caring about the consequences.
Anon
March 23, 2010 at 5:30 pmI wish I had run into Prof. W before I started paying tuition…she would have given it to me straight.
Jansen
March 24, 2010 at 1:43 pmIt’s easy to say this after they have your tuition.
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