Comments on: Jason’s Lesson’s Learned About the Legal Academy and Getting In http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/12/24/jason%e2%80%99s-lesson%e2%80%99s-learned-about-the-legal-academy-and-getting-in Technology, law, and personal stories Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:21:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jason http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/12/24/jason%e2%80%99s-lesson%e2%80%99s-learned-about-the-legal-academy-and-getting-in/comment-page-1#comment-4187 Jason Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:38:18 +0000 http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/12/24/jason%e2%80%99s-lesson%e2%80%99s-learned-about-the-legal-academy-and-getting-in#comment-4187 <blockquote>The postmodernism point is more closely related to what Jason wrote than the “science” point.</blockquote> <p>I think the impact of critical legal theory does have something to do with it. However, it isn't the only cause. The problem of law reviews stems in many ways from Langdell's reform of legal education, the rise of legal realism (which really is your point), and the use of students to edit and select manuscripts for law review. The use of students as law review editors is perhaps the single most influential cause of the law review problem.</p> <p>The road to reform of the legal academy is strewn with many bodies of those who have tried to fix this in the past.</p> The postmodernism point is more closely related to what Jason wrote than the “science” point.

I think the impact of critical legal theory does have something to do with it. However, it isn’t the only cause. The problem of law reviews stems in many ways from Langdell’s reform of legal education, the rise of legal realism (which really is your point), and the use of students to edit and select manuscripts for law review. The use of students as law review editors is perhaps the single most influential cause of the law review problem.

The road to reform of the legal academy is strewn with many bodies of those who have tried to fix this in the past.

]]> By: adam http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/12/24/jason%e2%80%99s-lesson%e2%80%99s-learned-about-the-legal-academy-and-getting-in/comment-page-1#comment-4180 adam Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:20:52 +0000 http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/12/24/jason%e2%80%99s-lesson%e2%80%99s-learned-about-the-legal-academy-and-getting-in#comment-4180 <p>I was using Jason's post as a launching point for some more general comments on my perception of academia. The postmodernism point is more closely related to what Jason wrote than the "science" point. In any event, the two trends (if I'm correct they exist) are at the very least in tension with each other if not contradictory.</p> I was using Jason’s post as a launching point for some more general comments on my perception of academia. The postmodernism point is more closely related to what Jason wrote than the “science” point. In any event, the two trends (if I’m correct they exist) are at the very least in tension with each other if not contradictory.

]]> By: Dylan Thurston http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/12/24/jason%e2%80%99s-lesson%e2%80%99s-learned-about-the-legal-academy-and-getting-in/comment-page-1#comment-4179 Dylan Thurston Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:55:40 +0000 http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/12/24/jason%e2%80%99s-lesson%e2%80%99s-learned-about-the-legal-academy-and-getting-in#comment-4179 <p>I don't see how any of the 8 points listed show how law is being reduced to a science? Academic scientists, for instance, certainly care about whether you can get grants, and care to some extent about demonstrated impact. Interdisciplinary work can be problematic for scientists as well (depending on the context), but I think that's a problem with the general structure of academics more than anything else.</p> I don’t see how any of the 8 points listed show how law is being reduced to a science? Academic scientists, for instance, certainly care about whether you can get grants, and care to some extent about demonstrated impact. Interdisciplinary work can be problematic for scientists as well (depending on the context), but I think that’s a problem with the general structure of academics more than anything else.

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