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What American Legal Education Can Learn From The 'Harry Potter' Series, Sarah Gerwig-Moore
What American Legal Education Can Learn From The 'Harry Potter' Series, Sarah Gerwig-Moore
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Both legal education and a Hogwarts magical education involve a new way of seeing the world—an immersive and intense process requiring, in many ways, a transformation. Students need a new wardrobe for both law school and wizarding school—and an awful lot of puzzling and expensive textbooks. Both Hogwarts and law school have been accused of operating entirely apart from reality. One of these criticisms may be valid. ...
This lighthearted comparison to the Harry Potter stories can perhaps join other voices to help make a serious and important case for practical legal education. There are few principled reasons for not …
Law School In A Different Voice: Legal Education As A Work Of Mercy, Pamela A. Wilkins
Law School In A Different Voice: Legal Education As A Work Of Mercy, Pamela A. Wilkins
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What might it mean for a law school to share this Mercy charism? More broadly, what would it mean for a law school to share the spiritual DNA of a female order, seeing the world from historically female perspectives and motivated by historically female concerns? More broadly still, in this #metoo era, in which women make up the majority of American law students, should it simply be business as usual at religiously affiliated law schools, or should we seize the opportunity to consider seriously, and in the light of faith, women’s perspectives on legal education, law, and justice?
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