Method REENGINEERING AND LEGAL EDUCATION: AN ESSAY ON DARING TO Believe DIFFERENTLY KAREN GROSS* I. INTRODUCTION Thinking on the nature and high quality of legal education just isn't new.1 Simply because the MacCrate Report2 as well as the stinging criticisms of Judge Harry Edwards,3 legal educators had been overtly wrestling with how successfully to train folks being lawyers. The Professor of Law, New York Law School. J.D. Temple University, 1977; B.A. Smith College, 1974. This article is an adaptation of the presentation made at the NYLS Faculty Presentation Day, Spring 2004. Special thanks are owed to my beneficial research assistants, Erika Lazar and Risha Mehta, with no whom this paper would not have been completed — and in a timely fashion. I also wish to thank Charles Abelmann and Kris Franklin for their many thoughtful suggestions.
Finally, I would like to thank Pamela Godwin for each her insights and her inspiration to believe differently. The errors, of course, are all mine. 1. See WILLIAM LAPIANA, LOGIC & EXPERIENCE: THE ORIGIN OF Current AMERICAN LEGAL EDUCATION (1994) (discussing the history — and twists and turns — of legal education in America); Richard A. Matasar, Legal Education: Skills and Values Education: Debate For the Continuum Continues, 46 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 395 (2002); Rita I. Steinzor & Alan D. Hornstein, The Unplanned Obsolescence of American Legal Education, 75 TEMP. L. REV. 447 (2002); Gerald F. Hess, Seven Principles for Good Course of action in Legal Education, 49 J. LEGAL EDUC. 367 (1999); Gerald F. Hess, Listening to Our Students: Obstructing and Enhancing Learning in Law School, 31 U.S.F. L. REV. 941 (1997); Ruta K. Stropus, Mend It, Bend It, and Extend It: The Fate of Conventional Law School Methodology inside the 21st Century, 27 LOY. U. CHI. L.J. 449 (1996); Karl N. Llewellyn, The Modern Crisis in Legal Education, A single J. LEGAL EDUC. 211, 215 (1948). 2. ROBERT MACCRATE, LEGAL...
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