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The Uc-Irvine Experiment: Will It Be Effective At Teaching Contract Law?, Greg Crespi
The Uc-Irvine Experiment: Will It Be Effective At Teaching Contract Law?, Greg Crespi
Greg Crespi
The new law school at the University of California, Irvine is attempting to implement an innovative vision of top-tier legal education that focuses upon preparing students for the practice of law, and which emphasizes skills-based and experiential training. As part of that effort the school has restructured the traditional first-year law school curriculum so that several of the courses each focus on particular analytical methods, specifically common law analysis, statutory analysis, procedural analysis, constitutional analysis, and international legal analysis, rather than on a particular subject matter such as contracts, torts, etc. While there are some advantages to this new approach, …