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Monroe Freedman's Influence On Legal Education, Peter A. Joy
Monroe Freedman's Influence On Legal Education, Peter A. Joy
Hofstra Law Review
Monroe Freedman’s influence on legal education was profound by any measure. He was much more than a gifted scholar and teacher, though he was all of those, as well as an accomplished lawyer. He was also the antithesis of a law professor disconnected from the practice of law who produces scholarship that has little to no relationship to the practice of law. Instead, Monroe Freedman’s scholarship was singularly focused on the difficult ethical issues lawyers face in the practice of law, and he was fully engaged with the practicing bar. Much of his scholarship was on the leading edge of …