The Greatest Class No One Knows About: Spontaneous Order and the Law
June 17, 2013
What’s a Spontaneous? At the beginning of each semester, I always have the same conversation. “Hey Mike, what classes are you taking?” Usually, I reply with a boilerplate list of regular law school classes, “I got lumped into professional responsibility, corporations, federal taxation, and evidence.” That’s a regular law school semester. But this year…it was different. “What classes am I taking, you ask?”—“Well, this semester I’m taking Spontaneous Order and the Law!” Of which the normal reply is generally, “Huh?” I get it. The title of the class sounds a little Mickey Mouse, and I was a little nervous to take it too. But I’m glad I did. It has truthfully been the best class I have ever taken in law school. The. Best. Unfortunately, for some reason, no one knows about it. So here, I endeavor to explain why all Chapman Law students need to take this class.