Old Tricks for New Cases: Leveraging Your Prior Learning in Law School

Old Tricks for New Cases: Leveraging Your Prior Learning in Law School

Envision this: You are sitting in a ‘Competition Law’ lecture, and the lecturer starts discussing market power, monopolies, and consumer welfare. Suddenly, a lightbulb goes off– you have heard these terms before, back in your economics class during sixth form. Or perhaps you are studying ‘Tort Law’, grappling with concepts like duty of care and negligence, and you realise how much these ideas echo the sociological theories of justice you once st…