The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education and the Legal Profession

Authors

Harry T. Edwards, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitFollow

Abstract

This article is my response to Professor Priest and all other legal academicians who disdain law teaching as an endeavor in pursuit of professional education. My view is that if law schools continue to stray from their principal mission of professional scholarship and training, the disjunction between legal education and the legal profession will grow and society will be the worse for it. My arguments are quite straightforward, and probably not wholly original. Nevertheless, they surely merit repetition.

Recommended Citation

Harry T. Edwards, The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education and the Legal Profession, 91 Mich. L. Rev. 34 (1992).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol91/iss1/3