However, we do not view ourselves as elitists, for we work with students of all abilities the aim being, or course, to improve their interpretive and communicative skills. We are an imbalanced department in that we are a young department. Youth, of course, brings vitality, new ideas, and connectedness to students. We recognize that college prepares students for their careers. Law School History and Political Science have traditionally been the accepted majors for admissions to Law School.
History offers three prized skills that makes a History major particularly attractive.
First, so much of law involves researching precedents, having well-honed research techniques before arriving at Law School makes it that much easier. Second, writing skills are a prerequisite of law and History majors have had an enormous amount of experience writing. Third, law requires lawyers to look at the extenuating circumstances. Likewise, History teaches students to look behind the facts at bias and authorship, or cultural and historical particulars. This third point is why I strongly believe that History is a worthwhile major for pre-law students.