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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Law school is much more of a grind than grad school. You seem very confused OP.[/quote] I think it is the opposite. Do law students have teaching responsibilities in addition to full time class loads? [/quote]

Not sure what people mean by 'grind.'  Law classes are more like undergrad classes-- memorization, reading non-scholarly work.  PhD is much more intellectually challenging-- learning theoretical frameworks and empirical papers with advanced statistics.  The objective is for the student to master the current state of the art (intellectually) and then to contribute knowledge beyond the current frontier.  It's much more challenging, intellectually, and more work.  But I wouldn't call it a 'grind.'[/quote]
One difference is that if you're getting a PhD in something, you're generally interested in the subject matter. In law, the classes can be hit or miss as far as whether they interest you or not. For example, PhD with a dissertation on literature from the American South over a certain period of history versus Cotracts, Tax, Civil Procedure, etc. [/quote]
If you're a PhD student, you still need to pass comprehensive exams, which are quite broad. So a philosophy PhD might be interested in writing her dissertation on Kant, but would need to take comprehensive exams in logic, philosophy of science, aesthetics, etc. [/quote]

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