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Taking Law And _______ Really Seriously: Before, During And After "The Law", Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Taking Law And _______ Really Seriously: Before, During And After "The Law", Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Vanderbilt Law Review
Any consideration of what legal education should consist of must begin with the question of what "law," as a field of study, is. Whether a study of "the law" is science, philosophy, political science, or a field unto itself, or is more like a social science study of the norms and behaviors that human beings create and enforce for their self- governance, what the field is should have something to do with how it is studied.
So, one can ask, what is the object of study when one studies "the law"? Court decisions and interpretations (doctrine) and statutes and regulations …