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Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy : A Polemic Against the System / Duncan Kennedy ; with commentaries by Paul Carrington ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, Duncan, 1942-
- Series:
- Critical America Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Study and teaching--United States.
- Law.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Edition:
- Criticla edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : New York University Press, [2004]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy . This controversial booklet was reviewed in several major law journals-unprecedented for a self-published work-and influenced a generation of law students and teachers. In this well-known critique, Duncan Kennedy argues that legal education reinforces class, race, and gender inequality in our society. However, Kennedy proposes a radical egalitarian alternative vision of what legal education should become, and a strategy, starting from
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic against the System; Reproducing the Right Sort of Hierarchy; The Spiritual Foundation of Attachment to Hierarchy; Power and Resistance in Contemporary Legal Education; Of Time and the Pedagogy of Critical Legal Studies; Afterword; About the Contributors
- Notes:
- "With an introduction and afterword by the author."
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-4908-9
- OCLC:
- 780425902
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