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A potent attack (from a US Sentencing Commission lawyer) on the make-up and commitments of law professors

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to notable (and mostly positive) buzz at law-prof blogs like Professor Bainbridge, TaxProf, Law Librarian, and PrawfsBlawg, I just came across this notable paper on SSRN, by Bruce Newton, which it titled "Preaching What They Don't Practice: Why Law Faculties' Preoccupation with Impractical Scholarship and Devaluation of Practical Competencies Obstruct Reform in the Legal Academy." Here is the abstract: In response to decades of complaints that American law schools have failed to prepare students to practice law, several prominent and respected authorities on legal education, including the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, recently have proposed significant curricular and pedagogical changes in order to bring American legal education into the twenty-first century...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 29, 2010 (boomark / email).