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Students As Teachers, Teachers As Learners, Derrick Bell, Erin Edmonds
Students As Teachers, Teachers As Learners, Derrick Bell, Erin Edmonds
Michigan Law Review
Judge Edwards divides his analysis of the cause of the crisis in ethical lawyering into an overview and three parts. The overview and first two parts deal mainly with the role of law schools and legal curriculum in what he views as the deterioration of responsible, capable practitioners. This article takes issue with some of the assumptions, analyses, and conclusions those sections contain. The third part of Edwards' article analyzes the role of law firms in causing that same deterioration. This article agrees with and will elaborate upon that part of Edwards' treatment.
We approach Judge Edwards' article, we hope, …
The Deprofessionalization Of Legal Teaching And Scholarship, Richard A. Posner
The Deprofessionalization Of Legal Teaching And Scholarship, Richard A. Posner
Michigan Law Review
The editors have asked me to comment on Judge Edwards' double-barreled blast at legal education and the practice of law. This I am happy to do. It is an important article, stating with refreshing bluntness concerns that are widely felt but have never I think been so forcefully, so arrestingly expressed. Nevertheless I have deep disagreements with it.
The Mind In The Major American Law School, Lee C. Bollinger
The Mind In The Major American Law School, Lee C. Bollinger
Michigan Law Review
Legal scholarship is significantly, even qualitatively, different from what it was some two or three decades ago. As with any major change in intellectual thought, this one is composed of several strands. The inclusion in the legal academic community of women and minorities has produced, not surprisingly, a distinctive and at times quite critical body of thought and writing. The emergence of the school of thought known as critical legal studies has renewed and extended the legal realist critique of law of the first half of the century. But more than anything else it is the interdisciplinary movement in legal …
Who's "Number One"?: Contriving Undimensionality In Law School Grading, Jeffrey E. Stake
Who's "Number One"?: Contriving Undimensionality In Law School Grading, Jeffrey E. Stake
Indiana Law Journal
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