Modern Legal Education: What It Is and Why It Is So Important
WHAT IS “MODERN LEGAL EDUCATION”? Does it describe a particular program? Is it a term that outlines a specific set of programs with rules and protocols to follow? Or does “modern legal education” simply encompass anything since the time when the fictional Professor Kingsfield terrified first-term students in John Jay Osborn Jr.’s “The Paper Chase.” The answer is a little bit of all of the above, plus the opinions, projects, and ideas of a vast number of legal scholars dedicated to putting forth their ideas in publication.


