Teaching Law: Justice Politics and the Demands of Professionalism

Teaching Law reimagines law-school teaching and scholarship by going beyond crises now besetting the legal academy and examining deeper and longer-lasting challenges. The book argues that the legal academy has long neglected the needs to focus teaching and scholarship on the ideals of justice that law fitfully serves, the political origins of law, and the development of a respectful but critical relationship with the legal profession. This book suggests reforms to improve the quality of legal education and responds to concerns that law schools eschew the study of justice, rendering students amoralist; that law schools slight the political sources of law, particularly in legislative action; and that law schools have ignored the profession entirely. These areas of neglect have impoverished legal teaching and scholarship as the academy is refashioned in response to current financial exigencies, and addressing them is long overdue.

Engages and seeks to reframe the relationship between law and justice, law and politics, and the legal academy and the legal profession
Responds to the current economic crisis facing law schools, but unlike other law school reformers also aims to improve the quality of legal education by responding as well to long-lasting complaints