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University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

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Plus Ça Change, Plus C’Est La Même Chose, Nancy B. Rapoport Jan 2013

Plus Ça Change, Plus C’Est La Même Chose, Nancy B. Rapoport

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This essay takes the original plans from NYU Law School and draws analogies between those plans and the issues facing legal education today.

Benjamin Butler's 1835 Plan for the Organization of a Law Faculty and for a System of Instruction in Legal Science in the University for the City of New-York will make any law school dean feel like Yogi Berra: it’s “deja-vu all over again.” The issue of how best to organize a curriculum to train legal professionals was a hot topic then, and it’s a hot topic now.