Washington & Lee to Put 3rd-Year Students to Work

Martha Neil reports in the ABA Journal on the revisions to Washington & Lee’s 3rd year law curriculum and further observes:

“There are a whole series of forces coming together to recognize that the curriculum in law school is in need of more professionalism and more lawyering-centered education,” says Southwestern Law School professor Catherine Carpenter, in an ABA Journal article last year about practical legal skills training. “There is the notion that a continual, doctrinal Socratic method of instruction may not be the only way to go.”