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LawSchoolasTrainingforHierarchy 21 - 19 Apr 2012 - Main.AlexKonik
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I found this account of the law school experience by Professor Duncan Kennedy of Harvard Law to be relevant to our discussions in class, thought I’d share.
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 Professors should teach all of this at once and later have a series of courses about more specific doctrinal areas - commercial transactions, mass torts, etc. The central spine of the thing could be articulated best by separating it from the other parts.

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>		That looks about right, Skylar. Jared and I were talking about it the other day, and it makes more sense the more you think about it. It takes a minute to remember that you aren't really meant to learn property or torts - these classes serve as sort of an extended Legal Methods class where substantive fields are used as vehicles. Its purpose sure fooled me, and the important stuff is hidden behind the gloss of substance. A semester long, pass/fail legal methods style class may be a more direct way to introduce students to these pillars without shifting student focus to substance before it's appropriate. Then, when you teach substantive classes you can begin in earnest.

On a related aside, I submit that, knowing nothing about law school or the legal profession before coming here, I am happy that there is virtually no course choice in the first year. If there was, advantage would be given to sons of lawyers and daughters of professors. You may not know the good "legal methods" classes to take. -- AlexKonik - 19 Apr 2012

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