[Aspiringlawstudent]

I don't find the law terribly hard to understand, to be honest - the trouble is remembering it all.

If I had a big problem with that, and if a tutor were able to help me remember it, I probably would've considered it at A-level.

If I'd struggled with that I'd never have applied to read it at university, though.

Requiring a tutor at university seems bizarre.

[TimmonaPortella]

(Original post by Aspiringlawstudent)
I don't find the law terribly hard to understand, to be honest - the trouble is remembering it all.

If I had a big problem with that, and if a tutor were able to help me remember it, I probably would've considered it at A-level.

If I'd struggled with that I'd never have applied to read it at university, though.

Requiring a tutor at university seems bizarre.

if you never find anything difficult to get your head around, I put it to you that you are not fully grasping the complications.

[Norton1]

(Original post by TimmonaPortella)
if you never find anything difficult to get your head around, I put it to you that you are not fully grasping the complications.

Agreed, try reading MacFarlane and Stevens on Intermediated Securities. Mindblowingly horrible.

[Aspiringlawstudent]

(Original post by TimmonaPortella)
if you never find anything difficult to get your head around, I put it to you that you are not fully grasping the complications.

Can you give me an example?

I don't believe I've yet encountered anything that has flummoxed me. I've had to re-read a few paragraphs in judgments before, sure, but I've never yet sat and thought 'I haven't got a clue what the law is' about something I've studied.

[Forum User]

There is no doubt that some law is hard to understand; some courses just concentrate on those bits which are relatively straightforward. Probably if you compare the contract law course at BPP with the same course at Cambridge then the former will be easier than the latter. That doesn't mean the law is easy, it just means students at BPP haven't learned a lot of it.

[jacketpotato]

(Original post by Norton1)
I think you've drawn an entirely inapt distinction. Working by yourself is obviously broader than being locked in a room with Chitty on contracts and clearly involves reading lists and attendance at lectures and tutorials. I think that you've put forward a fundamentally weak argument if you're suggesting the difference really lies there.

My point is that I don't understand the difference between tutorials and tutors. The point of lectures/tutorials is to teach you the law rather than you teaching yourself. Some unis have a lot more hours of tutorials than others, if people think they don't get enough face-time I think a tutor can make sense.

[ktwolves]

"The study of law is something new and unfamiliar to most of you, unlike any other schooling you have ever known before. You teach yourselves the law, but I train your minds. You come in here with a skull full of mush and, if you survive, you leave thinking like a lawyer. ” Paper Chase

if you never find anything difficult to get your head around, I put it to you that you are not fully grasping the complications.Timmo (above)


Those (who/toads/mushing minds) oppose, and without a sense of humour too, to private tuitions are afraid and jeolous of the additional "unfair advantage" private tuitions can provide, through face to face interactions, becoming more open minded and better thinkers, out-performing those who might not have the opportunity to get it.

[Norton1]

(Original post by jacketpotato)
My point is that I don't understand the difference between tutorials and tutors. The point of lectures/tutorials is to teach you the law rather than you teaching yourself. Some unis have a lot more hours of tutorials than others, if people think they don't get enough face-time I think a tutor can make sense.

I think we might need to agree to disagree. I don't think you have an indefensible position, but I would still say that there does have to come a time when you learn for yourself. Is it not better that that time comes in first year rather than third year? I can see that it would be reasonably easy to find someone qualified to teach contract, but is it going to be so easy to find a tutor for medical law or something specialised? Also, researching a difficult area is a great way to develop the legal research skills that you might actually need to use in practice.

The point you raise about contact hours is interesting but I would suggest from my own experience that I probably had just about the fewest tutorials possible during my degree and I'm not sure more would have actually been all that helpful.

[chalks]

(Original post by Aspiringlawstudent)
Can you give me an example?

I don't believe I've yet encountered anything that has flummoxed me. I've had to re-read a few paragraphs in judgments before, sure, but I've never yet sat and thought 'I haven't got a clue what the law is' about something I've studied.

I've been practising law for the best part of 15 years. Rarely does a day pass without my being puzzled by a legal issue.

Mind you, I'm not convinced I'm the sharpest pencil in the box.