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Live Free Or Die: Perceptions About Law Students, Irving E. Fasan
Live Free Or Die: Perceptions About Law Students, Irving E. Fasan
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This Commentary explores the differences in medical and legal education to highlight some of the problems with the current legal teaching method. Specifically, this Commentary examines how and why the systematic training of a lawyer is inferior to that of a doctor in several ways. The author generally questions the adequacy of the current legal teaching method and how it effects law students' perceptions of themselves. This Commentary identifies the problem while its companion piece offers a solution.
If Wishes Were Horses: Reflections Without Footnotes On Legal Education, Irving E. Fasan
If Wishes Were Horses: Reflections Without Footnotes On Legal Education, Irving E. Fasan
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This Commentary suggests a solution to the problems with legal education which the author identifies. The author promotes patterning legal education on either the teaching method employed in the field of accounting or medicine. Each approach emphasizes a broader based legal education with more concentration on the practical learning experience. This Commentary culminates by offering a possible way to reform rather than replace the current system of training lawyers.