Jeffrey Rosen Quotes

We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.

In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

It always rankled me - in law school and the legal profession - when lawyers would speak to each other in their own exclusive language.

I went to law school.

I want to study law.

I'm a student of the law.

Long-term I would love to go to law school.

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.

My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education."

Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.

I assumed just from being around, all these years, that people would immediately glom on to, Well, it's a departure, and it's a dystopian kind of thing, and that's natural, of course. But it's surprised me - not even surprised me, but it's pleased me - how much people have been responding to the way the book was written.

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

I can tell you about Hillary Clinton's heart. This is a woman, who, after law school, went down to my native South. She went down, after graduating from Yale Law School, to help poor kids, to help disabled kids.

I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.