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- Title
A Damn Hard Thing to Do.
- Authors
Schlegel, John Henry
- Abstract
The article traces the common law origins of the Langdellian curriculum in the U.S., and attributes the difficulty in reforming it to the inherited conceptual categories. The author notes that there is no standard first year course that is based on statutory law, although the modern legal system is predominantly statute-based. He offers a vision of a law school whose curriculum reflected modern legal practice. A modern law school, he stresses, should devote its first year to teaching doctrinal structures and methods, legal practices and legal writing, together with the background of the legal system. In the second year, students would explore two practice areas in detail, and then they would be done; the third year, he opines, is a waste of time.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LAW school curriculum; LEGAL education; CURRICULUM change; COMMON law; CURRICULUM; JUSTICE administration; LAW students; LAW schools
- Publication
Vanderbilt Law Review, 2007, Vol 60, Issue 2, p371
- ISSN
0042-2533
- Publication type
Article