The Game

I could be off base here, but law school is such a game.

People pay all this money, sacrifice their health, and even don suits (gasp) in order to play this game. It's kinda ridiculous really. But what's the game you ask?

Well, the game is called "Pin the Fact on the Law."

To play, all you have to do is take some facts like, Tom hit Ben, and then pin it somewhere on the law (battery, assault etc.). You get a point for each correct pin. Sometimes you even get an extra point if you can manipulate the facts so that it appears to fit on the law tree.

For example, let's take the fact Tom hit Ben. I could pin that fact on battery because tom swung his arm, and the arm landed on Ben's face. Battery is when a person (1) intends to cause a (2) harmful or offensive contact. When Tom swung his arm that satisfies intent because arms don't just swing on their own. When Tom's arm hit Ben's face that was a harmful or offensive contact because harmful or offensive is defined by what a reasonable person would consider harmful or offensive, and let's be honest, who thinks getting hit in the face is not harmful or offensive? So we have ourselves a battery. One point.

Well what if Tom has epilepsy? Is that still a battery? No, because when Top swung his arm he was having an epileptic seizure and he didn't intent to swing his arm. No battery. So now you have to take Tom hits Ben off the law. Two Points.

That's the game. It's kinda fun, really.

What's sobering, however, is out in the real world it's not a game.