r own courses, such as administrative law, litigation, American legal history, civil rights legislation, family law, health law, economic law, etc. Law school education focuses primarily on the case method, “which is designed to teach students legal reasoning via the analysis of appellate opinions” (Neubauer, 126). Using the case method, the process of analyzing opinions count more than merely the outcome. Many people have rejected this teaching method in law schools, because it presents a way of learning the law to first-year students that requires independent, critical thought: something unlike anything students have ever experienced. As the years progress, however, courses are increasingly taught in seminar style. Due to the mounting need to bring together the theoretical and pragmatic aspects of law, many law schools have founded clinical training programs, which allow the students to directly deal with legal problems and offer legal advice to such indigents, as well as draft documents and file lawsuits.Although the curriculum of mostly all law schools in the United States is very similar, there are essential differences in the kind of training and education received. The most important difference is accreditation with a law association, such as the American Bar Association and the American Association of Law Schools. Both organizations require standards for the qualification of law schools, including student-faculty ratios, required courses, professional qualifications of the professors, etc. There are 176 out of 200 law schools nationwide that meet these requirements, and thus are eligible for alliance with the ABA. Law schools that are ABA-approved guarantee allowance for students to take the bar exam in any state, instead of merely their own, as allowed by the 24 other law schools in the nation that are not accredited. Another difference between law schools is their institutional affiliation. Most law sch...
