Talk:Pierson v. Post
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[edit] Memories of law school
Ah, Pierson v. Post!. This was one of the first cases we began studying in my very first week of law school (probably was the same for half or more of the lawyers in the United States). My property law professor tortured me and my classmates forever (or so it seemed at the time) with the Socratic method, and this was probably a good case to get started with. After a few weeks of property law classes studying cases like this, I was half-convinced that you couldn't define possession and it was useless to try! But somewhere during that first year of law school (I was never consciously aware of when it happened), my thinking had changed.
Law school changed the way I think about things -- in subtle but important ways. I am so grateful to my law school professors and to the system that allowed me and my classmates to go through the process. Famspear 20:15, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
At least no nightmares of falling scales in Palsgraf. John wesley 14:48, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
