Tiger Cub Strikes Back: Memoirs of an Ex-Child Prodigy About Legal Education and Parenting

Abstract

I am a Chinese American who at 14 enrolled at Princeton and at 17 began my applied mathematics Ph.D. at Harvard. I was a first-year law student at the University of Chicago before transferring to Stanford, preferring the latter\u27s pedagogical culture. This Article offers a complementary account to Amy Chua\u27s parenting memoir. The Article discusses how mainstream legal education and tiger parenting are similar and how they can be improved by fostering life-long learning about character strengths, emotions, and ethics. I also recount how a senior professor at the University of Pennsylvania law school claimed to have gamed the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings