The discipline of law schools the making of modern lawyers /

Synopsis

"The Discipline of Law Schools takes a comprehensive look at the routine practices, habits and unintended consequences of American legal education. This analysis reveals that a web of routine educational practices in law schools produces implicit or tacit knowledge about law and lawyers that is often unrecognized. This knowledge reinforces the emphasis on basic legal analysis that reduces complex problems to small, discrete issues, and it helps promote a lawyer's quickness, productivity and toughness. But law school disciplinary practices also contribute to an excessive focus on basic technical skills and knowledge to the detriment of study and practice with more complex skills of legal argument and interpretation; to the acquisition of superficial reading and writing habits; and to the unintended development of unduly conservative views about the nature of law, legal practices and legal ethics." "This book draws upon contemporary political theory and philosophy to develop an original ethical basis for evaluating and altering the discipline of law schools in ways that could promote more effective, more democratic and more humane legal education. The book also suggests steps that individual law students and law professors may take to counter the adverse effects of the law school discipline."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved