Law in Contemporary Society

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 I do not disagree with Leiter that a mandate of 15 hours by the Bar Association might not be an appropriate measure, but his rationale is flawed. The issue is that Leiter and most legal academics only see value in legal academia because that is what they do. Leiter fails to see that resources could easily be allocated from academics toward professionals, providing students with access to professors with actual client work without the expanding clinical offerings ad infinitum. He is unable to see that using “norms, arguments, and reason” in actual legal contexts - specific to a field a student is interested in or not - might actually be as valuable as simply studying the reasoning of judges in casebooks. And finally, he cannot see the value that future “scholars and teachers” would get from practicing law? Perhaps this is the most telling line of his piece. Most law students will become lawyers, yet legal academics seem inclined on training only more legal academics.

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So here you are, free to take in any direction you like the present professional writing exercise you have with one teacher you can say for sure wants to make a lawyer, rather than a law professor, out of you. So what do you write? An essay about law school....

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