The Association of American Law Schools identifies the following as the major objectives to be sought in an undergraduate pre-law curriculum:
- comprehension and expression in words;
- critical understanding of the human institutions and values with which the law deals;
- creative power in thinking.
These goals can best be approached by an undergraduate curriculum in which the social sciences and English play the leading part. One of the leading American law schools advises college students preparing to study law: "The importance of history in a pre-legal program cannot be over-emphasized;" and of political science: "This subject also is one with which the lawyer must be well-acquainted and it, too, is a natural college major for pre-law students." Accounting (for which mathematics is a prerequisite) is also strongly recommended by law schools.
