Teaching law : justice, politics, and the demands of professionalism / Robin L. West, Georgetown University Law Center.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, Robin, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching--United States.

Law.

Law--Study and teaching.

United States.

Law schools--United States.

Law schools.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Teaching Law re-imagines law school teaching and scholarship by going beyond crises now besetting the legal academy and examining deeper and longer-lasting challenges. The book argues that the legal academy has long neglected the need to focus teaching and scholarship on the ideals of justice that law fitfully serves, the political origins of law, and the development of a respectful but critical relationship with the legal profession. It suggests reforms to improve the quality of legal education and responds to concerns that law schools eschew the study of justice, rendering students amoralist; that law schools slight the political sources of law, particularly in legislative action; and that law schools have ignored the profession entirely. These areas of neglect have impoverished legal teaching and scholarship as the academy is refashioned in response to current financial exigencies, and addressing them is long overdue.

Contents:

Introduction: the trouble with law schools

The unbearable lightness of justice

Politics and its discontents

The bifurcated academy: the practice versus the study of law

Confronting our existential challenge

Some conclusions.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781107381834

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.