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Scalia Gave Wyoming Law Students His 'Single Best Piece Of Advice'

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Antonin ScaliaJustice Antonin Scalia isn't shy about sharing his uncensored opinions, even if they're incredibly controversial. After all, he has a lifetime appointment.

His speech at the University of Wyoming's law school last week was no exception, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.

A law student asked him for the "single best piece of advice" he has for law students, and he told her they should skip the "frill courses."

"Take the bread and butter courses. Do not take 'law and women,' do not take 'law and poverty,' do not take 'law and anything,'" Scalia said, explaining that many professors simply "teach their hobbies."

Scalia isn't the only justice to offer up advice to aspiring lawyers.

John Roberts recently implied that people shouldn't go to law school simply because they're "not good at math and can't think of anything else to do."

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Before joining Business Insider, Erin was a senior reporter at Law360.com, where she covered the Supreme Court, sex-bias lawsuits, and legal battles over allegedly defective products. Previously, she served as a bureau chief for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Dalton, Georgia, the self-proclaimed Carpet Capital of the World, where she covered motorcycle gangs and immigration, among other topics. Erin holds a master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism and enjoys reading the style section when she isn't following the latest big crime story. She grew up in Marietta, Georgia.