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1992

Missouri Law Review

Legal reasoning

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Introduction: Contrasting Perspectives On O'Brien V. Cunard S. S. Co. Ltd. Apr 1992

Introduction: Contrasting Perspectives On O'Brien V. Cunard S. S. Co. Ltd.

Missouri Law Review

This article gives five articles that present a pedagogical approach to O'Brien v. Cunard S.S. Co. Ltd.


Ideology Of Legal Reasoning In The Classroom, The, Jay M. Feinman Apr 1992

Ideology Of Legal Reasoning In The Classroom, The, Jay M. Feinman

Missouri Law Review

The other papers in this symposium stress the importance of expanding our inquiry into cases such as O'Brien v. Cunard Steamship Co.' In this essay I discuss how the process of legal reasoning, as it ordinarily is conducted in first-year classes, introduces its own element of ideological distortion. My proposition is that, because of that ideological distortion, the moves suggested by the other symposiasts are important but limited.