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Professionalism And The New Normal, Philip J. Weiser
Professionalism And The New Normal, Philip J. Weiser
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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 …