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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh. Didn’t know it was that hard to get in or that highly ranked.

Part-time in-state may not be a bad option financially to reduce loan debt and gain work experience.[/quote]

if price is an issue then UDC maybe a good option.

To the main point besides the name and conservative justices lecturing; how does GMU law indoctrinate lawyers to be conservative? I can understand an 18 year old freshman but LSAT has a literal logic test and the reading portion that leans towards critical thinking. Plus according to "How Judges Reason?" a good lawyer simply needs predicts the outcome of a case if it were to go to trial. Politics shouldn't come into play and most of the work is "dull" stuff the general public wouldn't care about.

BTW. GMU Grad here and never thought GMU law was conservative. Just that it took the money and said thanks. [/quote]

Law school shouldn't be political. And for most of the history of law schools it wasn't. Yes, the majority of grads of top schools likely leaned left, as well as most of the faculty, but the study of law was largely apolitical.

GMU has been branding itself as the alternative to the historically left leaning law schools (again, they don't purposely lean left, but that is how they are perceived and I'm sure there are some examples of them being more welcoming environments for those who lean left). They have cozied up to more conservative judges and outperformed their rank in terms of getting clerkships, primarily by getting them with right leaning judges.

Given the nature of the school, I'm sure there are plenty of non-Republican students there. And I'm guessing that the vast majority of the classes are taught exactly how they are everywhere else, where the law is the law. But your classmates are more likely to lean that way and many hiring firms are well aware of this, for better or worse.

It is sad that this has all been politicized. Again, the Ivy law schools are not without fault - they have not always been welcoming to views that are not in line with the majority, and that is not OK. But GMU has gone pretty far in the opposite direction.[/quote]

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