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An Invitation Regarding Law and Legal Education, and Imagining the Future

Madison, Michael J (2018) An Invitation Regarding Law and Legal Education, and Imagining the Future. Working Paper. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This Essay consists of an invitation to participate in conversations about the future of legal education in ways that integrate rather than distinguish several threads of concern and revision that have emerged over the last decade. Conversations about the future of legal education necessarily include conversations about the future of law practice, legal services, and law itself. Some of those start with the somewhat stale questions: What are US law professors doing, what should they be doing, and why? Those questions are still relevant and important, but they are no longer the only relevant questions, and they are not the only places to start. What about other legal educators, meaning those who teach and train in legal services worlds but who don’t teach the professional practice of law or the delivery of traditional legal services? What about those who are involved deeply in the production and distribution of law, legal services, and legal information but who are not, themselves, lawyers? Why start with current teachers; why not start with current or future students, or current or future clients, or current or future institutions, or current or future sets of values? Expand the communities of interest and identities of potential participants not only beyond elite US law schools, and not only beyond the private law firms that constitute BigLaw, but also beyond the US and beyond North America. The invitation goes out, in short, to a much broader audience than US law professors, and it is framed in broad but pragmatic terms.


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Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Status: Unpublished
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Madison, Michael Jmadison@pitt.edumadison0000-0001-6503-754X
Monograph Type: Working Paper
Date: 2018
Date Type: Completion
Number of Pages: 24
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.2139/ssrn.3122624
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: School of Law > Law
School of Law > Law > Faculty Publications
Refereed: No
Uncontrolled Keywords: Law school, legal education, legal profession, legal operations, legal technology, law firms, change management, organizational change, leadership, future of law
Official URL: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3122624
Date Deposited: 17 Jun 2019 15:26
Last Modified: 27 Sep 2019 18:29
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/36914

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