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Making Lawyers Good People: Possibility Or Pipedream?, Subha Dhanaraj
Making Lawyers Good People: Possibility Or Pipedream?, Subha Dhanaraj
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Comment first outlines general conceptions of morality and moral development according to the widely accepted model promulgated by Professor Lawrence Kohlberg, and enunciates the importance of moral theory in the context of legal education. Next, it analyzes competing views of moral development and challenges some general concerns about the value of moral education in law schools. It then proposes the incorporation of moral teaching in the law school curriculum to remedy the disjunction between persona convictions and legal analysis stemming from the Langdellian method of legal training. Finally, it discusses the challenges to incorporating moral education into legal training. …