Professor Jennifer Pahre recently sat down with the Daily Illini to discuss her proposal to begin offering a legal studies minor at the University of Illinois. Pahre has proposed three different possible tracts within the minor - law and economics, law and politics, and law school focus.
Pahre said she believes it is important for people to understand the important role law plays in life and wants people to be able to know when they need legal help.
"I think it’s important, similarly, to know enough law to know when you might need a lawyer, and I am not sure we’re doing a particularly good job in training people to understand the perils they face in the collection of situations that come up," Pahre said.
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