The Trials of Law School

Herewith the preview for The Trials of Law School: A Journey in Law, a Journey in Life:



According to the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog, this 87-minute feature by Porter Heath Morgan (himself a 2004 graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law) "follows eight students at the [Oklahoma Law] as they struggle to learn the language of the law and the sometimes high-school feel of law school."

The movie also includes commentary by 25 legal scholars:

• Taunya Banks (Maryland)
• Randy Barnett (Georgetown)
• David Becker (Washington St. Louis)
• Angela Davis (American)
• Charles Daye (UNC, Former LSDAS president)
• Rich Freer (Emory, George Washington)
• Elizabeth Garrett (USC)
• John Goldberg (Vanderbilt)
• John Kidwell (Wisconsin)
• Paula Lustbader (Seattle)
• Ruth McKinney (UNC)
• Judith McMorrow (Boston College)
• Rob Miller (Author, Law School Confidential)
• Martha Peters (Iowa, Elon)
• Eric Posner (Chicago)
• Richard Primus (Columbia, Michigan)
• Patrick Schiltz (U.S. Federal Judge, Former Dean, St. Thomas)
• Chris Slobogin (Florida, Stanford)
• David Sokolow (Texas)
• Mark Tushnet (Harvard)
• Elizabeth Warren (Harvard)

The best quote from the preview, in my opinion, is this:

What's sad about law school . . . is that we take these very bright, energetic high-achievers, people who've well all their lives, and we put them in this chamber, and we pour them out and we rank them.