Journal article
Learning and Learning-to-Learn by Doing: Simulating Corporate Practice in Law School
Journal of legal education, Vol.45(4), pp.498-512
01 Dec 1995
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Abstract
When I came to law teaching after several years as a practicing corporate lawyer, I was struck by two things. First, by the disdain in which-generally speaking-legal academics hold law practice and legal practitioners, especially corporate lawyers. Second, by the almost complete absence of"lawyering" courses focusing on the work of transactional attorneys, nonlitigators. I view both these things as shortcomings of law faculties and law school curriculums. It is my purpose here to suggest how both may be corrected.
I suppose the obvious reason why law teachers generally care so little about private law practice is that most have had little exposure to it and the few who have tried it have rejected it as a career choice. But I want to ignore that sort of realist analysis and focus instead on the epistemological basis for the split. Law professors shun corporate practice because corporate practice is not a "serious subject."
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- Title
- Learning and Learning-to-Learn by Doing: Simulating Corporate Practice in Law School
- Creators
- Karl S. Okamoto
- Publication Details
- Journal of legal education, Vol.45(4), pp.498-512
- Publisher
- Association of American Law Schools
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991021866419004721
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