It would be no surprise if legal training turns out clever arguers, but there’s a big difference between arguing persuasively and getting the right answer. Training in questions where there is no single right answer may improve students’ rhetoric, but I think it’s likely to leave them underprepared when they have to weigh in on questions where there is a single right answer, and no amount of argument will make any other answer acceptable.
It would be no surprise if legal training turns out clever arguers, but there’s a big difference between arguing persuasively and getting the right answer. Training in questions where there is no single right answer may improve students’ rhetoric, but I think it’s likely to leave them underprepared when they have to weigh in on questions where there is a single right answer, and no amount of argument will make any other answer acceptable.