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Invisible Teachers: A Comment On Perceptions In The Classroom, Robert F. Nagel
Invisible Teachers: A Comment On Perceptions In The Classroom, Robert F. Nagel
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The First Year Courses: What's There And What's Not, David L. Chambers
The First Year Courses: What's There And What's Not, David L. Chambers
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At the great majority of American law schools, students begin with a set of required courses that bear the titles of our next six chapters: Civil Procedure, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, Torts, and Constitutional Law. The six are likely to be taught in ways that resemble each other on the surface. Each will have a "casebook" slightly heavier than a Sears catalog. Each casebook will devote more pages to the decisions of courts of appeals. than any other form of material, and your assignments will come almost entirely from the casebook. In class, the professors will have an arched eyebrow …
The Moral Responsibility Of Law Schools, Terrance Sandalow
The Moral Responsibility Of Law Schools, Terrance Sandalow
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The subject I have been asked to address, the moral responsibility of-law schools, is perplexing, less because answers to the implicit question are uncertain than because the meaning of the question is unclear. Our ideas about moral responsibility have been formed in reference to individuals. They presuppose the existence of distinctively human characteristics such as understanding and will. What, then, can be meant by the moral responsibility of "law schools," institutions that, just because they are not human, necessarily lack these capacities?