Loading...
Changing Objectives in Legal Education
Turner, Roscoe
Turner, Roscoe
Files
Abstract
IT may be said without much question that there is more activity in the law school world today than there has been at any time within the last generation or two. Things are in a state of flux -the culmination of a long period of suggestion and countersuggestion with little change. The addition of new courses to the curriculum, the general re-arrangement of existing courses to admit various types of non-legal materials, new approaches in legal thought, new ideas concerning teaching methods, the advent of fact research, and a dawning awareness of the existence of other social sciences than law, all testify to a rapidly changing world. But while there is thus much acceleration and some motion, it is safe to say also that there is far less idea of direction than apparently existed during the last sixty years. The old law school objectives have to some extent been swept aside and new ones have not yet been adequately formulated. It is here proposed to examine the older order briefly in the light of recent developments and to attempt a statement of possible present objectives in terms of concrete curricular re-adjustment.