<p>Hegemon, you’re right about it being a little silly to take classes about law and then go to law school, but a lot of kids do it anyway, and it’s hard to make them stop. They may end up looking like every other schmuck applying to law school, but that’s because that’s what people applying to law school – successful or not – look like. I was thinking about this the other day, and realized that – notwithstanding that I swear I never thought about applying to law school until I was a senior in college, and I was basically a comp lit major throughout – I had three “law” courses in college taught by law school professors before I applied to law school.</p>
<p>Anyway, Dennis Hutchinson used to exclude people from LLS if they said they wanted to go to law school, but he couldn’t really police it, and I think in the end he just gave up. Hutchinson has a lot of cred in the academic legal world, by the way. LLS isn’t anything like law school (nor should it be), but it isn’t necessarily BS, either.</p>
<p>I had one class my last year of law school that had five undergraduates in it. That was a horrible experience for everyone. The undergraduates hated the law students, because they thought we were all too conservative and too critical of the teacher. The law students hated the undergraduates because they worshiped the teacher, went around spouting jargon-filled ideology, and never paid attention to any practical issues. The whole situation required some serious mediation (which I did, because, for various reasons, I had cred with the undergraduates, and I had known the professor since before law school). If I were teaching law school, I would be very careful about letting undergraduates into my classes, except for real non-law classes like legal history, or overviews of some foreign legal system, or pure policy.</p>