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A proficiency in understanding, applying, and even formulating statutes—the actual texts of laws enacted by legislative bodies—is a vital aspect of the practice of law, but statutory law is often given too little attention by law schools. ███

Author's perspective · Statutes are critical to practicing law, but not given enough attention in law school

Current law school approach · Focuses on judicial decisions

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Benefit of changing focus · Much actual work is based on how statutes apply

Sometimes how statutes apply are obvious. But other times it's not, so it's important for law students to learn to interpret statutes.

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Additional benefit of changing focus · Ability to synthesize laws

Caselaw focus doesn't do good job of helping students understand interrelations among laws. Focus on statutes helps students see how laws fit together. This can help when students encounter other areas of law.

Potential objection · Statutes are different from region to region

Concession · Specific knowledge of statutes isn't usually transferrable between regions

So a focus on statutes may not seem appropriate for nationally-oriented schools.

Response to objection · Skills acquired in mastering a set of statutes are transferable

Focus on statutes is still important for national-oriented schools.

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This reason isn’t cited in the passage. There’s no concern raised that studying statutory law will pull resources away from building case analysis skills. The author also never suggests nor concedes that analyzing cases is “far more important” than analyzing statutory law.

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This reason isn’t cited in the passage. No one’s saying that adding training in statutory law will have no impact on law school education.

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This reason isn’t cited in the passage. No one’s saying that the goals of studying statutory law (i.e., building skills in analyzing and interpreting statutory law) would be better achieved by not studying statutory law.

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This reason isn’t cited in the passage. No one’s saying that statutory law training is only relevant for students who want to specialize. The author just says in P3 that such training is especially important because most students want to specialize.

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This is a wordy but accurate paraphrase of what P4 cites as a reason people might object to teaching statutory law: statutory laws vary by region, so the statutes you’d learn about at law school wouldn’t be applicable to other regions.

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PrepTest 131 - Section 4 - Passage 2 - Question 10

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