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.”
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[...] proposed revisions of the third year law school curriculum. This follows on the heels of a recent announcement by Washington & Lee Law School that emphasizes practical legal skills [...]