Do Gen Z Law Students Lack Intellectual Curiosity?
With full disclosure I have dedicated most of my career and energy in the last 20 years to the service of law students and law schools and I say today's law students get a bad rap.
December 06, 2022 at 09:01 AM
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Board of ContributorsWith full disclosure I have dedicated most of my career and energy in the last 20 years to the service of law students and law schools and I say today's law students get a bad rap. They are often seen as apathetic and lacking in intellectual curiosity. In general, I don't believe this is true. However, their upbringing and world views are vastly different than previous generations (even different from millennials) and therefore how they learn and their educational needs are different.
No discussion of the current population of law students could be complete without an examination of their generation—Generation Z or "Zoomers." This is the generation born in the late 1990s and early 2000s for whom the internet and social media is ubiquitous. The allure and constant use of social media have caused all of our attention spans to diminish but the Zoomers are really hit hard giving them a attention span of eight seconds (millennials are 12 seconds). This results in resumes that have bullets instead of descriptions and students not reading emails that they deem TLDR (too long didn't read, for you old people out there—I looked it up).
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