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’s pedagogical culture. This Article offers a complementary account to Amy Chua’s 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.

Keywords: Tiger Parenting, Legal Education, Judgment and Decision Making, Emotions, Values

JEL Classification: A12, A13, A21, K00, Z1