The distinguished literary scholar Stanley Fish can teach one a great deal about argumentation. Lacking a law degree, he has also served on law faculties and even as an assistant dean in the Duke Law School. What business does this …
Brian Tamanaha, author of the timely new book, Failing Law Schools, comes to Liberty Law Talk to talk about the numerous challenges to legal education in America. This podcast focuses on how legal education was shaped into an …
The next Liberty Law Talk is with Brian Tamanaha on his important book, Failing Law Schools. This discussion focuses on Tamanaha’s claim that legal education is the victim of regulatory capture by the ABA Legal Education Committee. This has …
In Failing Law Schools, Brian Tamanaha, a law professor and legal theorist at Washington University at St. Louis School of Law, has written a timely, thoughtful, and provocative book about the state of legal education. Given the central importance …
For decades it seemed as if the demand for legal services would keep growing indefinitely, and the prosperity of the American legal profession would keep mounting year by year. Then in 2008 came the smash-up, and boom gave way to …
Jim Chen is right. Contrary to the mythical image repeated in the past two decades—exemplified by Anthony Kronman’s The Lost Lawyer and Sol Linowitz’s The Betrayed Profession—the American legal profession has never had a golden age. As preeminent scholar …
“Golden ages” figure prominently in history and in myth. Golden ages invariably take place in the past. Their very existence insults the present. To invoke the term golden age implicitly speaks ill of today, as though those misfortunate enough to …
As usual, I find myself charmed by Mike Paulsen’s provocative style, which is on full display in The Uselessness of Constitutional Law. And, as usual, I agree with much of what he says. He is certainly right, for example, …
I just listened to the episode of Law Talk on Schools for Misrule. Richard Reinsch does a great job of interviewing Walter Olson on his new book. After the podcast, I will definitely be putting the book on …
In this conversation with Walter Olson, we discuss the progressive philosophy informing much of legal pedagogy in American law schools and how it has manifested itself in a range of attempts to use law as a political weapon.
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