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Prefatory Remark, Robert B. Mckay
Prefatory Remark, Robert B. Mckay
Cleveland State Law Review
Does clinical legal education meet the test of necessity? An affirmative answer is here suggested for the following reasons. First, skills training is an important adjunct to analytical training and is nowhere better provided than in appropriately designed clinical programs. Second, neither students nor prospective employers should be satisfied with a legal education that omits reference to the practical world of skills training. Third, contrary to the common belief of earlier generations, skills training can be better accomplished through the systematic training programs of the law schools than through the more haphazard training of law firms and other law offices.
Reappraising American Legal Education Through A Comparative Study, Stanley A. Samad
Reappraising American Legal Education Through A Comparative Study, Stanley A. Samad
Cleveland State Law Review
The current ferment in American legal education has been stimulated mainly by the American realists and a recent offshoot of that school, called policy science. The thrust of their reproof is that law to be studied is not to be found in the casebook and the law library, but is to be found in "law in action" in the context of economic, moral, political, psychological and social forces that shape law and the process of decision. Some have stressed the role of the lawyer as policy maker, or as counsel or adviser to policy makers, and have developed a suggested …