Law Practice,
Education Law
Nov. 20, 2007
Rethinking Legal Education
Law schools can do a much better job of training lawyers. Last year, a report prepared for the Carnegie Institute came to this conclusion and simultaneously law schools across the nation have begun to rethink aspects of their curriculum.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
By Erwin Chemerinsky
Law schools can do a much better job of training lawyers. Last year, a report prepared for the Carnegie Institute came to this conclusion and simultaneously law schools across the nation have begun to rethink aspects of their curriculum.
Harvard and Stanford, for example, have received media coverage for changes that they have implemented and recently the New York Times rep...
Law schools can do a much better job of training lawyers. Last year, a report prepared for the Carnegie Institute came to this conclusion and simultaneously law schools across the nation have begun to rethink aspects of their curriculum.
Harvard and Stanford, for example, have received media coverage for changes that they have implemented and recently the New York Times rep...
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