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Colloguium For Legal Education Then And Now: Changing Patterns In Legal Training And In The Relationship Of Law Schools To The World Around Them , Bob Gordon, James May, Jack Schlegel, Joan Williams Jun 2017

Colloguium For Legal Education Then And Now: Changing Patterns In Legal Training And In The Relationship Of Law Schools To The World Around Them , Bob Gordon, James May, Jack Schlegel, Joan Williams

James May

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Law School As A Culture Of Conversation: Re-Imagining Legal Education As A Process Of Conversion To The Demands Of Authentic Conversation, Gregory A. Kalscheur S.J. Dec 2011

Law School As A Culture Of Conversation: Re-Imagining Legal Education As A Process Of Conversion To The Demands Of Authentic Conversation, Gregory A. Kalscheur S.J.

Gregory A. Kalscheur, S.J.

Conventional wisdom holds that the principal task of a law school is to teach law students to "think like lawyers." However, law school can be experienced as a form of narrow training that diminishes something central to the human person: the fundamental drive to question and to follow those questions wherever they lead. This Article will explore the ways in which the thought of two scholars, Bernard Lonergan and James Boyd White, can usefully inform our understanding of this crisis of meaning and value within the context of a conception of law as a social and cultural activity. First, this …


The Faces Of Law In Theory And Practice: Doctrine, Rhetoric, And Social Context, Richard Boldt, Marc Feldman Oct 2010

The Faces Of Law In Theory And Practice: Doctrine, Rhetoric, And Social Context, Richard Boldt, Marc Feldman

Richard C. Boldt

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