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What's Wrong With Langdell's Method, And What To Do About It, Edward Rubin
What's Wrong With Langdell's Method, And What To Do About It, Edward Rubin
Vanderbilt Law Review
Here we are, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, using a model of legal education that was developed in the latter part of the nineteenth. Since that time, the nature of legal practice has changed, the concept of law has changed, the nature of academic inquiry has changed, and the theory of education has changed. Professional training programs in other fields have been redesigned many times to reflect current practice, theory, and pedagogy, but we legal educators are still doing the same basic thing we were doing one hundred and thirty years ago. Many law professors are conscientious and …