January 18, 2008

A Call for New Curricula

By KATHERINE MANGAN

The annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools this month drew the first national audience for a movement to make law-school curricula more practical. The effort has been gaining momentum since last January, when the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching released a report calling on law schools to teach more useful skills and to focus more on ethics and professional responsibility. The goal, the report said, was "to bridge the gap between the theoretical and the

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