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2009

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

Legal Education

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Methods Of Experimental Education: Context, Transferability And Resources, Julie A. Davies Jan 2009

Methods Of Experimental Education: Context, Transferability And Resources, Julie A. Davies

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Symposium--Experiential Education In China: Curricular Reform, The Role Of The Lawyer And The Rule Of Law: Introduction, Brian K. Landsberg Jan 2009

Symposium--Experiential Education In China: Curricular Reform, The Role Of The Lawyer And The Rule Of Law: Introduction, Brian K. Landsberg

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Strategies To Increase The Availability Of Skills Education In China, Brian K. Landsberg Jan 2009

Strategies To Increase The Availability Of Skills Education In China, Brian K. Landsberg

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Vico And Imagination: An Ingenious Approach To Educating Lawyers With Semiotic Sensibility, Francis J. Mootz Iii Jan 2009

Vico And Imagination: An Ingenious Approach To Educating Lawyers With Semiotic Sensibility, Francis J. Mootz Iii

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

Law is a specialized semiotic realm, but lawyers generally are ignorant of this fact. Lawyers may manage meaning, but they also are managed by meaning. Seemingly trapped by the weight of pre-existing signs, their attempts to manage these meanings generally are limited to technical interventions and instrumentalist strategies. Signs have power over lawyers because they are embedded in narratives, a semiotic economy that confronts the lawyer as ‘‘given’’ even though it is dynamic and constantly under construction. Most lawyers do not make meaning through legal narratives; rather, they parrot bits of the controlling narratives in response to certain problems. Because …