Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Keywords
legal education, techno-utopianism, MOOC, legal scholarship, legal profession, higher education, monetization
Abstract
Most non-profit law schools generate public goods of enormous value: important research, service to disadvantaged communities, and instruction that both educates students about present legal practice and encourages them to improve it. Each of these missions informs and enriches the others. However, technocratic management practices menace law schools’ traditional missions of balancing theory and practice, advocacy and scholarly reflection, study of and service to communities. This article defends the unity and complementarity of law schools’ research, service, and teaching roles. (For those short on time, the chart on pages 45-46 encapsulates the conflicting critiques of law schools which this article responds to.)
Publication Citation
40 Journal of the Legal Profession 25 (2015).
Disciplines
Legal Education
Digital Commons Citation
Pasquale, Frank A., "Synergy and Tradition: The Unity of Research, Service, and Teaching in Legal Education" (2015). Faculty Scholarship. 1558.
https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/fac_pubs/1558