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2006

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Legal Education

Law--Study and teaching

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The "Ambitious Modesty" Of Harry Arthurs' Humane Professionalism, Julian Webb Jan 2006

The "Ambitious Modesty" Of Harry Arthurs' Humane Professionalism, Julian Webb

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article revisits Law and Learning, the 1983 Report of the Consultative Committee on Research and Education in Law, chaired by Harry Arthurs. The Arthurs Report set an ambitious agenda which sought, through the reform of legal education and scholarship, the cultivation of a "humane professionalism." That it met with limited success reflects a number of systemic problems with legal education, and the Report's own failure to address some critical issues, notably legal pedagogy. Nevertheless, the article argues that in the context of today's increasingly complex, pluralistic, and globalized environment, the law schools need humane professionalism more than ever. It …


The Law School, The Profession, And Arthurs' Humane Professionalism, Robert W. Gordon Jan 2006

The Law School, The Profession, And Arthurs' Humane Professionalism, Robert W. Gordon

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

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