Law Practice
Dec. 18, 2018
Is the law logical?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., famously declared that the life of law has not been logic but experience. Yet logic improves advocacy.
Frank H. Wu
President Designate
Queens College
Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.
As a teacher of law, I try to cover much more than doctrine. Students who merely memorize rules will not make lawyers of great competence. Even law itself is necessary but not sufficient. "Necessary but not sufficient" is among the logical concepts vital to practice. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., among the writers on common law who is most quotable, famously declared that the life of law has not been logic but experience. Yet logic improves advocacy.
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