The doctrine-skills divide : legal education's self-inflicted wound / Linda Edwards.
2017
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Title
The doctrine-skills divide : legal education's self-inflicted wound / Linda Edwards.
Published
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, LLC, 2017.
Call Number
KF272 .E388 2017
ISBN
9781611636130 (alk. paper)
1611636132 (alk. paper)
1611636132 (alk. paper)
Description
xi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)986788689
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Table of Contents
Preface
xi
Part I: Introduction
ch. 1
Today's Doctrine/Skills Divide
5
Introduction to Law School X and Its Semantic Confusion
6
Part II: The Dichotomy As A Social Construction
ch. 2
Getting Real about Categories
13
Labels
15
Definitions: "Substantive," "Doctrinal," and "Skills"
17
Property Course Teaches Crucial Lawyering Skills
20
Legal Writing Course Teaches Doctrine and Substance
24
Prototypes, Family Resemblances, and "the Squirming World of Contingency and Flux"
27
ch. 3
Legal Theory: Realism and the Nature of What We Teach
35
Holmes School of Law: A Proposal to Reform Legal Education Through Realism
36
Getting Real about Legal Realism, New Legal Realism and Clinical Legal Education / Robert Rubinson
50
ch. 4
Theories of Meaning: Realism and Rhetoric / Katherine R. Kruse
63
Vico, Llewellyn and the Task of Legal Education / Katherine R. Kruse
64
Theory without Practice Is Empty; Practice without Theory Is Blind: The Inherent Inseparability of Doctrine and Skills / Francis J. Mootz III
77
Philosophy v. Rhetoric in Legal Education: Understanding the Schism between Doctrinal and Legal Writing Faculty / Harold Anthony Lloyd
91
ch. 5
Theories of Learning / Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione
101
Experiential Education in the Lecture Hall / Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione
101
Teaching Law by Design: How Learning Theory and Instructional Design Can Inform and Reform Law Teaching / Jessica Erickson
111
ch. 6
Category Errors in Legal Scholarship / Michael Hunter Schwartz
131
Scholarship by Legal Writing Professors: New Voices in the Legal Academy / Michael Hunter Schwartz
133
What Is a "Legal Writing Topic"? / Terrill Pollman Linda H. Edwards
133
A.
Category One: The Substance or Doctrine of Legal Writing / Terrill Pollman Linda H. Edwards
134
B.
Category Two: The Theoretical Foundations of Legal Writing / Linda H. Edwards Terrill Pollman
139
C.
Category Three: The Theory and Practice Appropriate to the Teaching of Legal Writing / Linda H. Edwards Terrill Pollman
141
D.
Category Four: The Institutional Choices Affecting the Teaching of Legal Writing / Terrill Pollman Linda H. Edwards
146
Rationales Used to Discount Legal Writing Topics / Linda H. Edwards Terrill Pollman
149
Myth: Legal Writing Topics Do Not Qualify as Scholarship / Terrill Pollman Linda H. Edwards
149
Trouble with Categories / Linda H. Edwards Terrill Pollman
156
Where Does This Leave Us? / Linda H. Edwards Terrill Pollman
158
Part III: Troublesome Entailments / Terrill Pollman Linda H. Edwards
ch. 7
Divide's Disturbing Entailments / Terrill Pollman Linda H. Edwards
163
1.
Dichotomy Creates Inaccurate Perceptions / Linda H. Edwards Terrill Pollman
165
2.
Dichotomy Causes Inadvertent Substantive Drift / Terrill Pollman Linda H. Edwards
166
3.
Dichotomy Discourages Carnegie-Type Integration / Linda H. Edwards Terrill Pollman
168
4.
Dichotomy Impedes Improvement in Assessments / Linda H. Edwards Terrill Pollman
170
5.
Dichotomy Devalues the Teaching of Skills / Linda H. Edwards Terrill Pollman
173
ch. 8
Educational Entailments: Learning Theory & Formative Assessment / Terrill Pollman Linda H. Edwards
177
Cognitive Apprenticeship, Composition Theory, and the Writing-Thinking Connection / Terrill Pollman Linda H. Edwards
181
Experiential Learning, Cognitive Expertise, Schema Theory, and Schon's Theory of Professional Epistemology / Linda H. Edwards Terrill Pollman
184
Cooperative Learning / Terrill Pollman Linda H. Edwards
185
Multiple Intelligences / Terrill Pollman Linda H. Edwards
187
Formative Assessment / Terrill Pollman Linda H. Edwards
188
Learning Objectives and Mastery Oriented Learning / Linda H. Edwards Terrill Pollman
190
Experiential Education in the Lecture Hall / Linda H. Edwards Terrill Pollman
190
Power of Skills: An Empirical Study of Lawyering Skills Grades as the Strongest Predictor of Law School Success / Jessica Erickson
196
ch. 9
Rhetoric's Critique / Leah Christensen
209
When Less Is More: An Ideological Rhetorical Analysis of Selected ABA Standards on Curricula and Faculty / Leah Christensen
209
ch. 10
Gendering Entailments / Linda L. Berger
229
Reproducing Gender on Law School Faculties / Linda L. Berger
230
ch. 11
Crossing the Great Scholarship Divide / Ann C. McGinley
255
Crossing the Great Scholarship Divide / Ann C. McGinley
255
Part IV: How We Got Here / Terrill Pollman Elaine W. Shoben
ch. 12
Road That Brought Us Here / Elaine W. Shoben Terrill Pollman
267
Trouble with Categories: What Theory Can Teach Us about the Doctrine/Skills Divide / Elaine W. Shoben Terrill Pollman
268
American Legal Education: A History of Integrated Instruction / Linda H. Edwards
277
Part V: Building A Better Future / David R. Cleveland Jeffrey D. Jackson
ch. 13
Choosing a Better Future in the Classroom / Jeffrey D. Jackson David R. Cleveland
295
Law School Game Changer: (Trans)formative Feedback / David R. Cleveland Jeffrey D. Jackson
300
Experiential Education in the Lecture Hall / Elizabeth M. Bloom
315
ch. 14
Rethinking the Curriculum / Jessica Erickson
319
Institutional Support / Jessica Erickson
319
Experiential Education in the Lecture Hall / Jessica Erickson
319
Curricular Revision / Jessica Erickson
324
Revising a Traditional Curriculum / Jessica Erickson
325
Gonzaga's Integrated Curriculum / Jessica Erickson
325
Disrupting Dualism by Creating a Third Category / Gerald F. Hess
336
Replacing the Doctrine/Skills Dualism with a New Set of Categories / Gerald F. Hess
338
Trouble with Categories / Gerald F. Hess
338
ch. 15
Journey Across the Divide / Linda H. Edwards
347
Crossing the Divide / Linda H. Edwards
347
Index / Deborah Jones Merritt
359