The delimitation of the knowledge base, with parallel delimiting guides to our judges mean that you can gain professional competence in a very small portion of the law. This is a form of socialization into the role of lawyer and judges. It gives you a chance to try on the cloak of justice and see how you like it. To experience it as a professional does. This experience does not make of you a lawyer.
Law school does that.
This merely gives you a taste of what it might be like. The experience permits you to think deeply about what good lawyering is, to recognize a good argument when you hear one, to recognize when someone has done their homework and honed their skills, and thought deeply about the issues. The law is not unequivocal in this case. We wrote the case purposely to create ambiguity, to situate the people in complex circumstances. Despite what some lawyers and some students come to believe the appellant in this case is not definitively guilty or innocent.