[rayiner]

> Also, probability would have to be taught in law schools.

The first couple of weeks of my Evidence class was a crash course in probability and Bayes' rule. Our final exam had an entire section on it. I'd imagine you can still get through law school without learning probability, but it's getting increasingly harder as Evidence is reformulated on probabilistic grounds, just as Torts was reformulated on economics grounds in the 1960-1970's. Today you probably can't get through a Torts class without learning about Pareto efficiency or Coase theorem, etc. Also, empiricism is a dominant academic trend right now in legal academia, and it heavily relies on statistical approaches.

[nkrumm]

Very interesting, thanks for that. I admit I had no idea if statistics was part of the law curriculum or not. Glad to hear it is!