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THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF GARY BELLOW'S & BEA MOULTON'S THE LAWYERING PROCESS: FILLING IN THE 'LARGER PUZZLE': CLINICAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE WAKE OF THE LAWYERING PROCESS
Clinical Law Review, Vol.10, pp.221-833
01 Oct 2003
Abstract
Introduction As the articles in this symposium demonstrate, The Lawyering Process has meant many things to many people over the past twenty-five years. 1 In this article, we emphasize two aspects - its importance as a teaching text and as early clinical scholarship - that relate most directly to our book, Clinical Anthology: Readings for Live- Client Clinics. 2 Emphasizing these aspects of The Lawyering Process is not much of a limitation, given the context in which the book first appeared. In 1978, clinical legal education was still in its infancy and the publication of a major text for a clinical course was a major event in and of itself, plus it was bound to break new ground across both methodological and substantive lines. At that time, the clinical movement needed both to identify some curricular content for clinical courses and to develop a teaching method unique to the subject matter that came to be known as the lawyering process. The Lawyering Process sought concurrently to achieve these two ends. In a sense, Gary Bellow's and Bea Moulton's book was something of a Trojan horse. By producing a hardbound Foundation Press volume with the traditional look of an elite-faculty-edited law school casebook, Bellow and Moulton seemed to be offering up something familiar - even with the words "lawyering" and "clinical" on the cover. Once opened, however, the text was clearly not just any course book. It challenged conventional legal education on every front, from ...
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- Title
- THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF GARY BELLOW'S & BEA MOULTON'S THE LAWYERING PROCESS: FILLING IN THE 'LARGER PUZZLE': CLINICAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE WAKE OF THE LAWYERING PROCESS
- Creators
- Frank S. BlochSusan L. BrooksAlex J. HurderSusan L. Kay
- Publication Details
- Clinical Law Review, Vol.10, pp.221-833
- Publisher
- Clinical Law Review, Inc. Clinical Law Review
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991020638216704721