Studying at Harvard Law School is full of talents, and peer pressure is of course quite great. In particular, most professors flaunt Socratic teaching method and like to cross-examine and argue with students in class. The pressure of speaking in small class discussion class is self-evident. It is a compulsory course for a large class of one or two hundred people. Professors either ask questions randomly in class or arrange a group to ask questions in turn. Usually, there will be at least one or two opportunities to meet the professor in front of the whole class. As far as academic performance is concerned, the law school requires professors to allocate the grades of the whole class according to the size in principle in order to be fair. However, many people still ignore it. Take 200 1 year as an example, a well-known constitutional professor once invited an ll. M student, because her constitutional score is the first A+ given by the professor in ten years.

In such an environment, most students are of course frequent visitors to the library, burning incense, tireless, dare not or slack off. Harvard University has the oldest library in the United States (since 1638) and the largest library in the world (with more than13 million volumes). Among the 90 collections, 1 1 University accounts for the largest part, among which Widner Memorial Library has 3.5 million books. The library of law school is named after Christopher Columbus Langdell, the first dean of law school (appointed in 1870), to commemorate his efforts to revitalize the legal map and expand the collection. Randall Library currently has more than 500,000 books, Greek-style corridors and huge columns, and the building is magnificent, especially after the renovation of 1997. Inside the gate stands a statue of Joseph Story, the famous Justice of the Federal Supreme Court. Students often laugh at his erect finger, which means condemnation to students who don't study hard. Tall buildings, elegant atmosphere and comfortable seats make reading and writing in the library quite enjoyable. Some students even often avoid searching when the library is closed before the college entrance examination, and then stay in the library all night. After graduation, in retrospect, they have endless aftertaste.