Apr. 20, 2020
3 types of facts
Law professors have the habit of making three points.
Frank H. Wu
President Designate
Queens College
Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.
I was meeting with an attorney trained in a nation that follows civil law, not the common law tradition, emphasizing a comprehensive code rather than a series of cases, an exchange student who wished to review her midterm. Her analysis was good but not great. She is better than competent, identifying the issue and reciting the governing norm, but something is missing. The reason is her relative lack of interest in the facts at hand. But as I discussed with her how she...
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