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The Political Value Of Knowledge And The Elite Schools' Curricula: To Ignore Or Not To Ignore Marxism?, Dana Neacsu
The Political Value Of Knowledge And The Elite Schools' Curricula: To Ignore Or Not To Ignore Marxism?, Dana Neacsu
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This article focuses on the content of elite law schools' curricula. Like all such debates, this one also reflects the author's political and social concerns, which at this time are questioning the impact such curricula have on the graduates' abilities to deliberate "upon the full range of issues which might appear directly or indirectly on a less impoverished [contemporary] political agenda." Elite law schools, which are usually associated with elite universities, are expected to offer liberal legal education. Elite law schools are the fountain of legal scholarship. They are also the place where many of this nation's leaders acquire both …