Posted by Eugene Volokh:
A Reason to Resist Getting a Legal Education:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_08_10-2008_08_16.shtml#1218755422
[1]Bill Poser (Language Log) reports:
Sir William Jones, the great scholar of "eastern" languages
routinely (though incorrectly) credited with discovering the
Indo-European language family and founding modern historical
linguistics, was by profession a lawyer. He learned Sanskrit as a
judge in India. In his book Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and
its Discontents, Robert Irwin reports (pp. 123-4) that:
At an early stage in his life, Jones's father had considered
attaching him to a chambers to get a legal education, but Jones had
resisted this on the understandable grounds that the quality of the
Latin used in English law books was so very bad.
References
1. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=482
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