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Getting Real About Legal Realism, New Legal Realism And Clinical Legal Education, Katherine R. Kruse
Getting Real About Legal Realism, New Legal Realism And Clinical Legal Education, Katherine R. Kruse
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Jerome Frank’s call for a “clinical lawyer-school” is cited so frequently in clinical scholarship that it borders on the canonical. Like many calls for reform in legal education, Frank’s plea for clinical lawyer-schools was based on a critique of the appellate case method of legal instruction. However, unlike most critiques, the legal realist critique was embedded within a jurisprudential challenge to the meaning of law itself, arising from American Legal Realism. Running through legal realist jurisprudence was a distinction between the “law in books” and the “law in action,” with the idea that law is not found primarily in statutes …
Legal Education Comes To Nevada: The Creation Of The William S. Boyd School Of Law, Mary Berkheiser
Legal Education Comes To Nevada: The Creation Of The William S. Boyd School Of Law, Mary Berkheiser
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