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What is bad about law?

Can anybody tell me what are the worst things about Law at uni (LLB) I have a history teacher who says that...
"why spend three years doing a subject when you can spend one year doing it? (The conversion course)...
In law you never use your creativity, you just learn, learn, learn, which is boring."
Is he right?
Reply 1
Your history teacher sounds like he may have failed Law, or never got accepted. Basically, he sounds really jealous to me.
The heavy workload for those who arent prepared for it...
Reply 3
gl2748
Can anybody tell me what are the worst things about Law at uni (LLB) I have a history teacher who says that...
"why spend three years doing a subject when you can spend one year doing it? (The conversion course)...
In law you never use your creativity, you just learn, learn, learn, which is boring."
Is he right?


like there is any subject worth doing which hasnt got a fair share of reptitive learning??!?

bar taking up a pornography degree in Japan (im not making this up, u can check urself)
Reply 4
he was a successful lawyer...
gl2748
he was a successful lawyer...


if that was the case he'd never have subjected himself to a lower paid job teaching bratty teens.
Reply 6
cottonmouth
if that was the case he'd never have subjected himself to a lower paid job teaching bratty teens.


Not necessarily. My Business Management teacher holds a 2:1 in International Accounting from Glasgow University, which is a really competitive and good degree.
cottonmouth
if that was the case he'd never have subjected himself to a lower paid job teaching bratty teens.

one of my tutors was a prison governor and he's trained as a lawyer as well and he's a college tutor although he is on good money at college and he does have a pension as well
Reply 8
My history teacher said that too! Wait was it English teacher, or was it careers advisor, anyhow, I thought about it and why spend 4 years when you can spend 3~ and LLB has to be competative for a reason right~? Plus if your doing 3 years of work in 1 how much harder would that year be?
gl2748
Can anybody tell me what are the worst things about Law at uni (LLB) I have a history teacher who says that...
"why spend three years doing a subject when you can spend one year doing it? (The conversion course)...
In law you never use your creativity, you just learn, learn, learn, which is boring."
Is he right?


I think the conversion is seen as being mainly for those who want a career in law whereas the law degree is more academic, an indepth study of the subject. the CPE is of course much harder as u have to do all 7 compulsory units in a year, and u dont get to specialise in interesting areas (ie optional units) like LLB students. i find i definitely use my creativity in my LLB course, analysing cases and thinking about the effect of current issues, etc. one of my tutors said those who get firsts and 2.1s are those who add that little 'extra' to their answers, so if u DO want to come out at the top u need to use ur creativity and go beyond the basic 'learning'!
Anyone who claims that there is no room for creative thinking in a law degree clearly doesn't have one, or completed it badly.

As with any other undergraduate degree, it will have its dull moments, and it is inescapable that, because of the way in which some LLB examinations work, there will be an amount of committing to memory certain principles and the names of the cases from which they came. But if that's all you ever do, you'll end up getting a third class degree or worse.

At a good law school, there will be ample opportunity for you to challenge the ideas with which you are presented and use your broader skills as a thinker to turn them on their head. You'll be encouraged to reflect critically on what the cases seem to be telling you, and asked to defend or reject what you find on the basis of reasoned and rational argument. And since the law does not exist in a vacuum, if you can recruit ideas of a philosophical, moral, sociological, historical or political nature to your work, and articulate them in a sophisticated manner which is neither flippant nor obscurantist, then you'll be duly rewarded for your efforts. A law degree is really what you are prepared to make of it.

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