Education
Nov. 30, 2011
Legal education’s role in training lawyers
Training lawyers to model the rule of law is the first order for legal education. By Deanell Tacha of Pepperdine University School of Law
On Sunday morning, Nov. 20, my e-mails and texts began a frenetic wake-up call, alerting me that in a front-page article The New York Times had declared that law schools are not teaching lawyers! Shocking! First off, I couldn't believe that such a venerable newspaper would give prominent mention to such old news. But I was also shocked that the paper was firing another volley in the centuries-old debate about the purpose of education and the balance between practical a...
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