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Is Legal Scholarship Worth Its Cost?, Paul Campos
Self-Congratulation And Scholarship, Paul Campos
Self-Congratulation And Scholarship, Paul Campos
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Professor Jay Silver’s criticism of the reform proposals put forward in Brian Tamanaha’s book Failing Law Schools displays some characteristic weaknesses of American legal academic culture. These weaknesses include a tendency to make bold assertions about the value of legal scholarship and the effectiveness of law school pedagogy, while at the same time providing no support for these assertions beyond a willingness to repeat self-congratulatory platitudes about who professors are and what we do. The high costs for our students of the current scholarly expectations at American law schools are clear. What is not clear is whether those costs are …
My Dinner At Langdell's, Pierre Schlag
My Dinner At Langdell's, Pierre Schlag
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This essay begins on one of those cold wet April Cambridge mornings. It was too wet for fog, but too indifferent for rain. My head ached. My lips were dry and my tongue felt bloated. The fever had surely come back. Worse - the laudanum was wearing off. Tonight would be dinner at Langdell's. It occurred to me that not everyone is invited to Langdell's for dinner - certainly not wayward law professors from the provinces. This was an extraordinary opportunity. Blackstone would be there. Duncan Kennedy perhaps. Certainly the early Llewellyn. I knocked on the door.
A Reply--The Missing Portion, Pierre Schlag
Teaching Research To Faculty: Accommodating Cultural And Learning-Style Differences, Jane Thompson
Teaching Research To Faculty: Accommodating Cultural And Learning-Style Differences, Jane Thompson
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Ms. Thompson explores the challenge of teaching law school faculty how to research effectively, especially in light of a unique "faculty culture" and differences in individual learning styles.
Advocacy And Scholarship, Paul F. Campos
Advocacy And Scholarship, Paul F. Campos
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The apex of American legal thought is embodied in two types of writings: the federal appellate opinion and the law review article. In this Article, the author criticizes the whole enterprise of doctrinal constitutional law scholarship, using a recent U.S. Supreme Court case and a Harvard Law Review article as quintessential examples of the dominant genre. In a rhetorical tour de force, the author argues that most of modern constitutional scholarship is really advocacy in the guise of scholarship. Such an approach to legal scholarship may have some merit as a strategic move towards a political end; however, it has …
Writing For Judges, Pierre Schlag
Preface, Charles F. Wilkinson
The Field Of Public Land Law -- A Ten-Year Retrospective, Charles F. Wilkinson
The Field Of Public Land Law -- A Ten-Year Retrospective, Charles F. Wilkinson
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The Brilliant, The Curious, And The Wrong, Pierre Schlag
The Brilliant, The Curious, And The Wrong, Pierre Schlag
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Preface: On Natural Resources As An Area Of The Law, David H. Getches
Preface: On Natural Resources As An Area Of The Law, David H. Getches
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