learning by developing software

Choice making is a pervasive aspect of most forms of legal work. It’s central to case strategy, client counseling, advocacy, negotiation, document drafting, and adjudication. Yet law school courses rarely thematize it.
Humans evolved in environments that didn’t afford the luxury of many complex choices. Our ‘original equipment’ for decision making is not up to today’s realities. Brains run a quite buggy stack of software. Dozens of cognitive biases that afflict us have been documented. It’s a miracle we ever make good decisions.