[MplsSteve]

One characteristic I have noticed of many law school is what happens when a person goes into law school and how they’ve changed when they’ve come out.

I can name three individuals who went into law school as fairly staunch Republicans. Not the country club type of Republicans either. Two of the three prided themselves as being quite conservative.

After three years of law school, they have come out as liberals. This was number of years ago and they’re all still quite liberal.

Call me naive I guess but I thought the political indoctrination phase of higher education ended when it came to law school and perhaps med schools as well. I thought that they taught people how to practic law and not necessarily think idelogically different.

If there’s anyone out there whose got some thought on why law school seems to tuern people into flaming liberals, I’d like to hear it.

[mo]

“If there’s anyone out there whose got some thought on why law school seems to tuern people into flaming liberals, I’d like to hear it....”

Follow the money....no cash in Constitutional Law...gets in the King’s way....plenty of opportunity screwing over the peons and peasants for the King....

[Feasor13]

I went to law school and came out more conservative as did many of my buddies.

[Trod Upon]

It’s three years of focusing only on what judges and politicians say is allowed, and how to gain advantage within those constraints, without regard to the morality or justice of the situation. Law is no longer a canonization of our society’s values but rather a tool of advantage and plunder. Then they get out, don’t get the six figure job they thought law school was the ticket to (as the vast majority of lawyers never do) and spend the rest of their days stewing in envy. Envy + learned disregard of conscience = leftist. Easy.

[elk]

First, the 3rd year of law school is mostly useless, a cash cow for the university to which any given law school is attached.

Second, a bunch of indentured servants are pumped out (beholden to gigantic loans), unable to afford to think outside the box.

I recall law school classmates saying, "well, Professor A is an outright Commie, but if you don't agree, forget your grade (unless you go and smoke pot with him on weekends), so viva-la-proletariat on an exam, to get by." Sad.

[DeltaZulu]

Your complaint reminded me of this song, of which I'm quite fond:
Bumper Squire Jones (Carolan):
...
Ye lawyers so just,
Be the cause what it will,
who so learnedly plead,
How worthy of trust!
You know black from white,
Yet prefer wrong to right,
as you chance to be fee'd;

Leave musty reports,
and forsake the king's courts,
Where dulness and discord
have set up their thrones;
Burn Salkeld and Ventris,
with all your damned entries,
And away with the claret
— "A bumper, Squire Jones!"