"In The Vanishing American Lawyer, Thomas D. Morgan discusses the transformation of the U.S. Legal profession. There remains a need for people who understand law, the institutions that create it, and how to access those institutions' work, but lawyers are no longer uniquely qual…
Previous edition, 1st, published in 2007.
Introduction / Mindie Lazarus-Black, Meera Deo, and Elizabeth Mertz -- Theory and Practice, Together at Last : A Heretical, Empirical Account of Canadian Legal Education / David Sandomierski -- Teaching International Lawyers How to Think, Speak, and Act like U.S. Lawyers : Notes…
"There is a myth that lingers around legal education in many democracies. That myth would have us believe that law students are admitted and then succeed based on raw merit, and that law schools are neutral settings in which professors (also selected and promoted based on merit)…
"There is a myth that lingers around legal education in many democracies. That myth would have us believe that law students are admitted and then succeed based on raw merit, and that law schools are neutral settings in which professors (also selected and promoted based on merit)…
"There is a myth that lingers around legal education in many democracies. That myth would have us believe that law students are admitted and then succeed based on raw merit, and that law schools are neutral settings in which professors (also selected and promoted based on merit)…
"There is a myth that lingers around legal education in many democracies. That myth would have us believe that law students are admitted and then succeed based on raw merit, and that law schools are neutral settings in which professors (also selected and promoted based on merit)…
Once dismissed as plodding and superfluous, legal scholarship is increasingly challenging the liberal white male establishment that currently dominates legal education and practice. The result, here vividly recounted by Arthur Austin, has been an uncompromising, take-no-prisoner…
Once dismissed as plodding and superfluous, legal scholarship is increasingly challenging the liberal white male establishment that currently dominates legal education and practice. The most significant development since the emergence of the casebook, at the turn of the century,…
"Providing a comprehensive account of the often-misunderstood area of legal doctrinal scholarship, this incisive book offers a novel framing for conceptual legal theory and the functions of conceptual theorising in legal studies. It explores the ways in which a doctrinally orien…
To hear judges or legal academics speak of "law," one would think that it is a humane, genteel, and noble calling. To experience law on the receiving end - as a litigant or a witness - is an altogether different experience, often evoking fear and dread. Whence the difference? La…
