One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
by Scott Turow
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Author: Scott TurowEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-01
ISBN: 0446673781
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: Year One at Harvard Law School
Summary: 5 Stars
One L, Scott Turow
Scott Turow was an English major at Amherst. After graduating he worked as a lecturer at Stanford University. After three years (the early 1970s), a deepening interest in law led to a decision to attend law school. Legal matters were all around him. [Law is mostly concerned with property or personal rights in a society.] Scott chose Harvard Law School, the oldest and most prestigious law school in America. This book is about his experiences as a first-year law student (1L). This is "a demanding year, the work is hugely difficult and seemingly endless" and has fierce classroom competition. Nearly 40,000 students begin law school each year, the first year is uniform at American law schools. This book will give you an idea of what it's like.
After graduation Scott returned to his native Chicago to work as a Federal prosecutor ("Operation Greylord"). He later united law and literature by writing a number of books that were best-sellers, and were later adapted to successful movie dramas. Scott noted that Roscoe Pound had a single year of legal education in 1889 before he passed the bar exam. So why do they require three years before graduation? Is it due to monopoly power to extract more money from students, or to create a costly barrier that limits this education to the wealthy? Before the 20th century most lawyers trained as a legal aide to a lawyer to get practical experience before taking a bar exam. This necessarily limited the numbers of new lawyers. The rise of corporations in the late 19th century created a need for thousands of lawyers as employees of corporations. Universities began law schools to produce lawyers for corporate needs. Earlier, civil engineering schools were began to produce engineers for society; they previously came from the military.
This is why the law was seen as "the instrument by which the people in power kept themselves on top" ("Registration"). Law is a way to keep order in society, and prevent feuds and violent conflicts that would threaten peace in society. Only anarchists and libertarians dream of a world without laws, something that cannot exist in an ordered society. Just think of the Ten Commandments as the basic law of a society. Scott mentions "the era of Vietnam" but doesn't tell of his experiences when he was in college at Amherst. Did he ever meet Dr. Spock?
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Newsweek calls him "an extraordinarily canny and empathetic observer." In bestseller after bestseller, Turow uses his background as a lawyer to create suspense fiction so authentic it reads with the hammering impact of fact. But before he became a worldwide sensation, Scott Turow wrote a book that is entirely true, the account of his own searing indoctrination into the field of law called ... The first year of law school is an intellectual and emotional ordeal so grueling that it ensures only the fittest survive. Now Scott Turow takes you inside the oldest and most prestigious law school in the country when he becomes a "One L," as entering students are known at Harvard Law School. In a book that became a national bestseller, a law school primer, and a classic autobiography, he brings to life the fascinating, shocking reality of that first year. Provocative and riveting, One L reveals the experience directly from the combat zone: the humiliations, triumphs, hazings, betrayals, and challenges that will make him a lawyer-and forever change Turow's mind, test his principles, and expose his heart.Lawyers & Judges Books
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