Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1984
Abstract
At the great majority of American law schools, students begin with a set of required courses that bear the titles of our next six chapters: Civil Procedure, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, Torts, and Constitutional Law. The six are likely to be taught in ways that resemble each other on the surface. Each will have a "casebook" slightly heavier than a Sears catalog. Each casebook will devote more pages to the decisions of courts of appeals. than any other form of material, and your assignments will come almost entirely from the casebook. In class, the professors will have an arched eyebrow for every confident assertion a student makes. They will lecture in varying degrees, but nearly all will call on students who have not volunteered, asking questions about the assigned cases and the issues they raise.
Publication Information & Recommended Citation
Chambers, David L. "The First Year Courses: What's There and What's Not." In Looking at Law School. Rev. ed., edited by S. Gillers. New York: New American Library, 1984.