Ethics in Legal Education: An Augmentation of Legal Realism

Bringing Legal Realism to the Study of Ethics and Professionalism

Legal Realism for Economists

M ost economic theory presumes—often implicitly—a system of law and adjudication. After all, institutions like property, contract, and government regulation typically entail mechanisms for law-creation and lawapplication, which usually (though perhaps not inevitably) imply some kind of judicial system (Posner, 2008, pp. 5–6). Because judges are often responsible for interpreting and enforcing t...

The Limits of Legal Realism,

Holmes launched the highly successful American school of legal realism with his remark that "law" consists of "prophecies of what the courts will do in fact." [FN1] Later writers amended this proposition to include all officials, since decisions by judges constitute only a fraction of authoritative decisionmaking. [FN2] In its heyday, realism stimulated many proposals for legal reform and socia...

Epistemology and Ethics in Relationship - Centered Legal Education and Practice

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Susan L. Brooks is the Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and an Associate Professor of Law at the Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law. Robert G. Madden is a Professor of Social Work at Saint Joseph College, where he currently serves as Special Assistant to the President. He is also a Lecturer in Law at the University of Connecticut. The authors dedicate this art...

Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, legal informatics and legal education

Fragmentation and convergence are two discoursal lenses that have been used to view changes that have taken place in the domains of legal services, the legal profession, regulation and legal education. While they may appear orthogonal, the relationships between them are intimate, sophisticated, constantly shifting and require much more analysis. In this paper I shall argue that law schools need...