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- Title
The Law School Matrix: Reforming Legal Education in a Culture of Competition and Conformity.
- Authors
Sturm, Susan; Guinier, Lani
- Abstract
The article argues that the classroom experience is part of the culture of competition and conformity in law schools in the U.S. It emphasizes conflict in both its content and its pedagogic methodology. The authors note that presenting law to students through the medium of decided cases, and under-emphasizing statutes, treaties, contracts and informal agreements creates an image of law as essentially adversarial. They opine that adversarial culture breeds a narrow concept of law and legal education that undermines efforts to reform the curriculum. The only way out, in the authors' view, is to make law school culture an integral part of the conversation about law school reform.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LEGAL education; LAW school curriculum; LAW students; LAW teachers; EDUCATIONAL change; SCHOOL environment; CURRICULUM; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges
- Publication
Vanderbilt Law Review, 2007, Vol 60, Issue 2, p515
- ISSN
0042-2533
- Publication type
Article