American Legal Education and Professional Despair

Autor/in	French, David
Titel	American Legal Education and Professional Despair
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 24 (2011) 2, S.157-166 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-011-9217-z
Schlagwörter	Legal Education (Professions); Law Schools; School Effectiveness; Failure; Outcomes of Education; Lawyers; Educational Change; Student Costs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Juristischer Beruf; Schuleffizienz; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Lawyer; Rechtsanwalt; Bildungsreform; Studienkosten
Abstract	Lawyers are among the most unhappy, least respected wealthy people in America. There are, no doubt, many reasons for the morale crisis in the legal profession. After all, not many people like lawyers. Further, many aspects of legal work are objectively stressful. Litigation is rife with conflict even in the most courteous jurisdictions, and trials are known to tax the endurance of even the most seasoned litigators. But there's another culprit in legal despair, another force working in the hearts of young lawyers-to-be, a force with outsized influence in their future success but with seemingly minimal awareness of their looming professional reality: law schools. In no other professional school is there a starker gap between the profession as practiced and the profession as taught. Not only does law school fail to prepare students for their professional life, it often actually sets them up for defeat and disappointment. In short, law school promises more than it can deliver financially, professionally--and perhaps most critically--emotionally. If lawyers are on a path to despair and disappointment, law schools put them on that path and give them a hardy shove down the way. The author concludes with some suggestions for reform. (Contains 18 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10