How to Be a Lawyer Without Going to Law School
I can see why this topic is interesting to people on Hacker News, because &quot;self-study&quot; is not just an option in software development, it&#x27;s really the only way.  Yeah, a lot of us have CS degrees or degrees in related fields, but in the end, you have to read, absorb, prototype, evaluate, adopt, or reject thousands of pages of dense material every year to stay current.<p>I really do think that software developers may be unusually well prepared to study law this way, because developers really are accustomed to massive amounts of self-directed learning.