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The Excitement Of Interdictory Ideas: A Response To Professor Anders Walker, Marc O. Degirolami
The Excitement Of Interdictory Ideas: A Response To Professor Anders Walker, Marc O. Degirolami
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Having canvassed admirably the historical changes to the criminal law case book over the twentieth century, Professor Anders Walker's article suggests that criminal law ought to concern itself with the business of training future prosecutors and defense attorneys by eliminating, or at least greatly reducing, the place of moral and political reflection in the course, which was in any event the supercilious indulgence of elite law schools that disprized criminal practice. His normative prescriptions are of a piece with much that is currently in vogue in criticisms of legal education: that it is impractical, that it does not respond to …