"Law attracts some very bright people. But it is not profound. It is one of the simplest professional fields."

"... The young are analytically sharper than the old but lack experience. In an analytically weak field, experience may be essential to successful problem solving."

Writes Richard Posner, the 74-year-old judge, in his "Reflections on Judging."

AND: In line with this stress on real-world problem-solving is this proposal for law schools:

Law schools should require students who lack a technical background... to take a course in accounting and a course in statistics; a course that places a field or fields of law in its (or their) technological context; and at least one course, elsewhere in the university, of a purely scientific or technical character, such as applied math, statistics, economics (at the level at which it employs calculus and statistical analysis), physics, physiology, biochemistry, organic chemistry, some branch of engineering, or environmental or computer science.... If room needs to be made in the curriculum by cutting or shortening other courses, there is a good place to start: it is called constitutional law. Dominated as it is by the most political court in the land, constitutional law occupies far too large a role in legal education.