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The Legacy Of Clinical Education: Theories About Lawyering, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
The Legacy Of Clinical Education: Theories About Lawyering, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Cleveland State Law Review
This article will examine some of the various schools of thought about what lawyers do. It is offered as a commentary on the beginning of a philosophy or sociology of lawyering that is derived from the clinical movement which will survive long after the pedagogical and political disputes about clinical methodology have been resolved. This is a subjective study which incorporates my own interpretations of the concepts of the various schools of thought. I describe the approaches to or theories about lawyering and their "creators" as I know them, recognizing that some major theories, schools and people may not for …