IS LAW A DIFFICULT COURSE?
Mr Jarus, I am very impressed with your work here; thanks and keep it up.
Sir I want u to clarify this for me: I am confused over this career – Law; some say it very difficult to obtain law degree. Is this true sir?
Jibrin
Dear Jarus, my friend said Law is a difficult course; I need your advice sir, before I enroll for JAMB.
Jeremiah
Dear Jibrin and Jeremiah,
My take is, no course is difficult if you have passion for or interest in it. For a more robust answer, I passed this to our team member that is a lawyer who should know better having gon ethrough law programme himself:
Misbau, LLB, BL, LLM, teaches law at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
This question is funny and quite subjective. For the question of whether law is difficult or not will largely, if not wholly, depend on the AVERAGE capacity/ability of the student in question to read, understand and analyse general prose, cases and issues. Such capacity differs and varies from one person to another and also dependent on other variables such as the soundness or otherwise of the academic foundation (primary and high school) of the person involved. In other words, the study of law requires some level of mental or intellectual capacity that is preferably above AVERAGE but never below it. In fact, It is for this onerous requirement that law is only available as a second degree in some jurisdictions including but not limited to the US.
By and large, it can be said that law at the undergraduate level is not as ‘difficult’ as say, medicine or engineering or some social sciences courses. Yes, law as an Art based course is different from these two science based courses and should not ordinarily be compared with them. However, the comparison lies in the fact that they are all undergraduate courses which are available to all high school graduates. All said, It will be save to simply conclude that any high school graduate with an AVERAGE capacity can and should be able to study and be successful at studying law. Even though we have said that law is less ‘difficult’ when compared to some science courses at the undergraduate level, it must be pointed out that much of the (book) readings in law, unlike those science or social sciences courses, begin after graduation from the university. Yet, the ability to internalise such important task must have been cultivated at the undergraduate level. So if a student is lazy at reading/studying both in school and especially after graduation, law may well not be his/her right choice.
There you have it gentlemen.
I wish you all the best.
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