Home School Law School
Homeschooling has been available to many for quite some time now. Although a lot of arguments have been going around regarding the law and effect on home schooled children, it remains to be a popular choice in many countries. It used to be only for primary and secondary levels but today, with the advancement of technology, you can also earn a Juris Doctorate Degree at home. The Oak Brook College of Law (OBCL) was founded in Fresno, California for this purpose.
The College is a little different from the traditional law schools you see. While most schools teach analytical skills to their students, OBCL focuses on the “duty” that a lawyer must learn. These are a lawyer’s duty to God and his moral duties to others. Aside from this, the proper academic basics are also taught for the discipline of law.
Legal reforms have been a hot topic among educators, law professionals and other powerful individuals but no significant act was ever done for reform. This is the major reason why the home schooled community decided to start the law school with top instructors and that will give the students a proper perspective of the Biblical law and early legal philosophers. It is also a school where students can study law by correspondence.
With the unique education system, changes in the legal education are significant. Students can now do their readings, legal research, audio tape lectures and brief writing in the comfort of their home. They would need to meet up in a certain location for the orientation week where they will receive instruction form their law professors. For assignments and other questions, they can send thru emails and a website designed specifically for the professors and students to correspond.
At the helm of the law school are known professionals in the legal community and are all somehow related to the home school movement. They pooled their legal knowledge in the hope of getting more people interested in their home school training.
While most traditional law schools require a bachelor’s degree and a passing grade for a law school entrance exam, homeschooling only requires that a correspondence law student have 30 hours of college credit before starting law school. A variety of students are also enrolled here. There are paralegals, state legislators, homeschooling parents, even those as young as 18 years old.
The fees required in homeschooling is also significantly lower that a traditional law school. Although there are also fees for books, examinations and transportation for student conferences, the tuition is still much lower than having to go to school on a daily basis. Overall, the training here can be obtained at a low cost.
This opportunity is great for non traditional students. But of course, you still need to study hard for you to finish your course. As with the curriculum of other law schools, you would also need 18 hours per week of studying. They have to write numerous case briefs and read up a hundred pages a week. Memorization of key elements of the law is also required.
If law is your calling, then you are in the right place.
I am a student at OBCL and I am a graduate of 12 years of home schooling. I highly recommend OBCL and am happy to answer questions if anyone has any.
The article about Oak Brook College of Law was very informative. Thanks.
I am aware that at least one sixteen (16) year old has attended Oak Brook. She was home schooled. She passed the GED and CLEP’d out of two years of college at the age of sixteen.
She was the class valedictorian and successfully passed the bar in California and in the state she lived in.
Rob