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    STUDIA IURISPRUDENTIA - Issue no. 3 / 2017  
         
  Article:   “SHAME ON AMERICAN LEGAL EDUCATION”: AN CRITICAL READING OF ALAN WATSON / « HONTE À L’ENSEIGNEMENT JURIDIQUE AMÉRICAIN » : À LA LUMIÈRE DES LECTURES D’ALAN WATSON.

Authors:  BJARNE MELKEVIK.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/SUBBiur.62(2017).3.1

Published Online: 2017-09-30
Published Print: 2017-09-30
pp. 5-28

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“Shame on American Legal Education”: a Critical Reading of Alan Watson. The author takes advantage of reading Alan Watson’s book Shame on American Legal Education to reflect on what is happening today in jus-facultaire culture. On the basis of Watson’s assertion that American legal education is shamefully bad and deficient, the author examines successively the false Socratism, which today, in an anti-pedagogical way, undermine the teaching of law; the lure of the case-book method and the legal incompetence that is lodged there; and the phenomenon of poorly trained professors and shoddy research that are becoming more and more widespread. The author deplores the fact that a new legal anti-culture has taken root in the shortcomings and that there is a rampant stupidisation of legal education. He takes a stand in favor of a legal education promoting intelligence and rationality, which takes seriously the demands of modern law and above all its quality, and who can manage the indispensable dialogue between theory of law and practice of law.

Keywords: legal education; legal formation; legal didactics; law schools; legal theory, philosophy of law.
 
         
     
         
         
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