Law School Exam Answers

The WSJ Law Blog asked a few law professors to complete the statement, "A good law exam answer is..." The result of their survey can be found here.

While the post is interesting by itself, reading about what a law professor looks for while grading an exam has reinforced my feeling that PhD training is an asset in law school. Working through a legal problem sounds like it requires many of the same skills needed to determine which interpretation of some data is the most correct or whether or not the conclusions made in a particular paper are valid. Challenging research problems require you to look at things from every angle in the same manner Tim Wu suggests that different perspectives of a problem impact the legal analysis. There is also no single correct answer in research. We won't have to worry about that undergrad mindset that Paul Secunda mentions either.