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Questioning law school priorities in instruction and programming

By Douglas A. Berman

As Dan Filler notes in this post at The Faculty Lounge, at the terrific U Penn Eighth Amendment symposium last week I complained about the over-emphasis on capital punishment instruction and related programming in law schools.  Here is how Dan nicely summarizes my comments:He argues (his stats, not mine) that about 150 law schools offer courses on the death penalty, while only about 30 offer general sentencing classes. And Sharon Dolovich and Margo Schlanger piped up that there are no more than 5 lecture-style courses on the constitutional law of incarceration and corrections.  Doug contends that this reflects the preferences of law faculty ? who find the death penalty a glossy and compelling issue ? and also serves to reproduce this view of the world on the part of students...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).