Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Keywords
law curriculum, legal education reform
Abstract
This paper first argues for the maintenance of the traditional first-year curriculum. It does so in the context of an examination of what most lawyers do in practice and, therefore, what most lawyers should know. This portion includes a defense of the Socratic Method. The paper then addresses contemporary concerns about legal education, including the devaluation of courses in the private law curriculum, and considers why legal academics are not interested in private law.
Publication Citation
70 Maryland Law Review 451 (2011).
Disciplines
Curriculum and Instruction | Law | Legal Education
Digital Commons Citation
Reynolds, William L., "Back to the Future in Law Schools" (2011). Faculty Scholarship. 1028.
https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/fac_pubs/1028