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The Shame of American Legal Education
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by Alan Watson
Sales Rank: 1258125
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$26.40
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 255 pages
Published by: Vandeplas PublishingEdition: 1st Edition January 1, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1600420044
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1600420047
Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 13.6 ounces
Product Description
The title tells it all; American legal education is shamefully bad. Casebooks are endemic, especially in the first year, teaching by terror. Abridged cases are presented, shorn of context, with little support law. Students are to find legally appropriate responses, without being given the law, but professors are provided gratis with Teachers Manuals, that provide the acceptable answers! Tenure is granted mainly on two law review articles. The acceptable reviews are edited by students who have no expertise, and articles are almost always bloated, with any insight concealed. The articles, though, play almost no part in legal education. Much of importance is omitted from the standard curriculum: sources of law, relationship of law to society, and factors of legal development. Most law professors are plumbers, but they wish to be regarded as philosophers, hence, they are poor plumbers. The longest chapter is devoted to the gross inadequacies of three celebrated professors. The aim, though, is to indicate the profound ignorance of their numerous devoted admirers. The book s aim is reform of American law schools.
About The Author
Professor Watson - University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA
Reader Reviews
No doubt, Professor Watson's career has been illustrious. Uninformed of that fact, a reader of The Shame of American Legal Education would not realize that Watson has had a distinguished career as both a law professor and a scholar. His book is badly written, rambling in organization, poorly edited, filled with technical errors. His criticism of American legal education adds little to a voluminous literature. He relies on student evaluations, many favorable of his course, but demonstrating a highly selective unscientific sampling. Instead of a careful critique, this is an unsubstantiated broadside. Much of his criticism is simply this: American lawyers are not Civil Law lawyers; and, guess what? American law schools don't train lawyers to be Civil Law lawyers. I did not need to pay $35 to find that out.
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