The discipline of law schools : the making of modern lawyers / Philip C. Kissam.
2003
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Author
Title
The discipline of law schools : the making of modern lawyers / Philip C. Kissam.
Published
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2003]
Copyright
©2003
Call Number
KF272 .K58 2003
ISBN
089089390X
Description
ix, 280 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)52397374
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
3
Ch. 1
Basic Practices
17
Elite and Non-Elite Law Schools
19
Professional Expectations
23
The Core Curriculum
25
Casebooks
31
The Case Method
37
Law School Examinations
50
The Institutions of Scholarship
58
The Placement Process
66
Ch. 2
Space and Time
71
Spatial Relationships
71
Temporal Relationships
81
Ch. 3
Disciplinary Techniques
93
Invisibilities
93
Coolness
96
Rituals, Symbols, Myths
99
The Examinatorial Regime
105
A Confessional Technology
113
The Discourse of Law Schools
117
Coda: The Pleasures of the Discipline
120
Ch. 4
Reform
125
The Reform Tradition
127
The Professional Reforms
134
Academic/Political Movements
160
Ch. 5
Foreign Relations
185
The Diffuse Influence of Legal Practices
185
Corporate Law Firms
188
The Judicial System
200
The Organized Bar
203
The Research University
211
The State and Culture
220
Ch. 6
Ethics
227
Major Consequences of the Discipline
228
Possible Selves, Possible Ethics
231
The Ethics of a Dialogical Self
243
Epilogue: Our Disciplinary Future
269
Index
277