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Law School Education In The 21st Century: Adding Information Technology Instruction To The Curriculum, Kenneth J. Hirsh, Wayne Miller
Law School Education In The 21st Century: Adding Information Technology Instruction To The Curriculum, Kenneth J. Hirsh, Wayne Miller
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For the past 120 years, legal education in the United States has been fundamentally unchanged, even while the practice of law has been revolutionized by information technology. The ideal of the Socratic Method is still dominant in first year and many upperclass courses. Clinical and practice courses have expanded since the early-1980s; however, although state-of-the-art technology is now commonplace in law offices, most federal courthouses, and some state courtrooms, until now, there has been little effort to contextualize the importance of technology for law students. The authors review the availability of courses covering use of technology in law practice at …