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Teaching Laws With Flaws: Adopting A Pluralistic Approach To Torts, Taunya Lovell Banks

Missouri Law Review

It is important to say at the outset that this discussion about one case, O'Brien v. Cunard Steamship Co.1, would not have been as rich without access to the pleadings and trial record in the case. Too often we teach law courses as perspectiveless, adopting an analytical approach that consciously acknowledges no specific cultural, political, or class characteristics, but which is decidedly male, white and elitist. Today's law school classroom is more diverse both as to gender, race, and class, than ten or twenty years ago. This more diverse student body enters law school with life experiences and perspectives not …