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If You Think Law Schools Teach Students To "Think Like A Lawyer"...Think Again!, Douglas Rush
If You Think Law Schools Teach Students To "Think Like A Lawyer"...Think Again!, Douglas Rush
Douglas Rush
Law school faculty and deans purport to teach law students to “think like a lawyer.” Indeed, this phrase has been repeated so often that it has become legal pedagogical dogma. Professor Wegner, co-author of the Carnegie Report Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law, has stated that “thinking like a lawyer” has been embraced as a ”trope of the core identity” of the legal academy. Unfortunately, whether law schools truly teach their students to “think like a lawyer” has not been previously subjected to empirical analysis.
This article is an empirical examination using logistic regression analysis of two different …