When 'The People's Court' came along, I had an opportunity to really teach people about law. It was very important to me.
I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.
When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.
The course I teach, Professional Responsibility, was brought into law-school curriculums and required by most states for admission to the bar beginning in the 1970s.
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.'
I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives.
I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
