Law Practice,
Education Law
Nov. 11, 2019
Teaching the facts of law
We professors mislead students. Among the means of doing so is emphasizing law to the exclusion of fact. We have pedagogical reasons, a fancy term for our own expertise and preferences, which we confuse, the one for the other. It is law school, after all, not fact school. Yet I wonder if we might do better by referring to facts with law, at least now and then.
Frank H. Wu
President Designate
Queens College
Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.
We professors mislead students. Among the means of doing so is emphasizing law to the exclusion of fact. We have pedagogical reasons, a fancy term for our own expertise and preferences, which we confuse, the one for the other. It is law school, after all, not fact school. Yet I wonder if we might do better by referring to facts with law, at least now and then.
What I mean is most of our classroom discussion and testing is about subt...
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