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Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers. -- H. L. Mencken
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. -- H. L. Mencken
The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale. -- Cass Sunstein
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures. -- Luanne Rice
I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess. -- Scott Turow
The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on political issues from getting called whores by Oxycontin addicts. -- Bill Maher
The median GPA and LSAT percentile for students of the country's elite law schools were 3.8 and 98 respectively. At the time fewer than 20 black law students in the entire country met those standards. -- Lino Graglia
The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City. -- Jean Chretien
Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they are 2.5 times more likely than whites not to graduate college. Blacks are four times less likely to pass the bar exam on the first attempt. -- Peter Kirsanow
Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans. -- Robert Reich
Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status. -- Wendy Kopp
And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again. -- David Steinberg
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association. -- Demetri Martin
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens. -- Jon Porter
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I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night. -- Christopher Darden
I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice. -- Alan Dershowitz
I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy. -- Sandra Fluke
Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow. -- Tobe Hooper
Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students. -- Wendy Kopp
Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions. -- Jim Cooper
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation. -- Ruben Hinojosa
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance. -- Paul Davies
Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women. -- Claire McCaskill
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy. -- Noam Chomsky

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