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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a law professor and have been for a long time. My best students over the years have come from very different backgrounds. Some went to highly ranked undergrads, others went to schools that I literally had never heard of. Majors also vary...some of my best students have been history, engineering, political science/government, and English majors[b]. The best students don't get lost in the weeds, have the ability to think logically/rationally, have some intuition about human behavior/motivation, have the ability to draw inferences, and can see both sides of arguments. So whatever major teaches/hones those skills are the best ones[/b].[/quote]

This is what it is. One hundred percent. I am not convinced there is any major that teaches it. Studying certain things (syllogisms/logic, how to do a close read, writing clearly, persuasion/argument/rhetoric/fallacy, looking at solving problems creatively like in higher level math, how movements in art necessarily arise out of everything that came before, etc) may hone some of it, but for the most part it's just a natural ability to "think like a lawyer."  [/quote]

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