April 05, 2010. See the health care debate and, well, a constitutional law course. Also, I think law school exams encourage more breadth than depth -- it's relatively hard for a professor to objectively say "student X's analysis is better than student Y's" but relatively easy to say "student X addressed more of my bullet points than did student Y." As a result, there's an incentive in law school to reduce complex issues down to assortments of loosely related buzzwords.
Come to think of it, there's an incentive to do that in politics too.
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