Is anyone on /lit/ a lawyer or currently going through law school? What books, that you've actually read, helped your analytical abilities and actually contributed to your success in a notable way? On the subject, is law school worth it? A lot of people tell me it's not but i really enjoy it. It's honestly a passion. It's all I read about, I stopped reading fiction awhile ago, a-am I doing it right?
I'm applying to law school now and I've heard
"dont do it"
"first year is so hard it'll make you wanna quit, only the hardcore motherfuckers are in it the whole 3 years"
"there's a bubble and too many people with law degrees and they work shit jobs"
"you'll never get rich, just spend the rest of your life in the office"
it all depends on the kind of person you are OP, yes having a large amount of money is something I will be working for, but I'm in your shoes...i truly fucking love law, interpretation, etc..
you live the way the life YOU CHOOSE to live and you can do it many different ways...the way i look at it is:
sure there could be a chance i won't be a millionaire etc like hollywood bullshit tells us, but at least i KNOW i will be happy practicing law and if i get rich in the process or even make enough money to be comfortable then that would be just fucking great!
then again, i am some random replier, take my advice if you'd like...just don't let 4chan /lit/ be the one to tell you what to do, just let it influence you at the least.
>>7850838
Thank you for the advice anon, where were you thinking of applying?
>>7850852
thats classified
>>7850791
I had a whole collection of law books from the early 1900s, I remember reading them on the shitter and I had no idea what was going on.
>>7850791
If I might piggy-back on your thread anon, rather than making one of my own:
What is the essential reading for understanding law and its impact on society from a non-specialist perspective?
>>7850861
Understandable.
>>7850872
Good question. Start with Wendell Holmes Jr. He contributed greatly to our understanding of the common law (Amerifag here). Unfortunately, legal reading, even something that acts as a summary to it, is extremely dense. Welcome to law.
>>7850872
Bourdieu - The Force of Law.
Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Path of the Law.
You can probably find some introductory books such as Law: A Very Short Introduction and get a decent idea of the subject.
It quickly becomes very academic, at least the books I know. Gunther Teubner has written about the impact of Law, and Nils Christie as well. Both European.
I've only just taken the LSAT and am preparing for law school, so I'm not very knowledgeable about the subject, but I feel compelled to add that I found Schmitt's ''Der Nomos der Erde'' as a very interesting systematic, historical account of international law. Of course, it has its misguided political commitments..
>>7850959
It just deals with the law in general, in order to understand the relationship between law and morality, you first have to understand what the law is. It's so much more than just a judge decided a case, its a complex system that's constantly changing.
>>7850791
Massive reader currently in law school here (US).
It's not a great place, especially at first. I went to an Ivy undergrad and dropped down to a top-20 law school for financial and ethnological reasons and even at the lower-ranked school, I had an awful first year. However, starting second year, if you find a nice niche you enjoy (for me, that's data privacy which I only recently discovered), you'll coast through the rest and work happily. It's not insurmountable.
Reading-wise or academically in general, it's standardized and rigorous. Anything anyone may suggest reading to help your analytic abilities won't benefit you until you start practicing, if ever. Law school is a straight reading/memorizing/recalling obstacle course.
I've dedicated one day a week to reading fiction. I needed to, to keep me sane.
