Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School
"How is it that so many students can enter law school determined to promote liberal ideals and leave three years later to counsel the least socially progressive elements of our society?" Kahlenberg focuses on this remarkable transformation in his memoir of his Harvard Law School (HLS) education, chronicling his successful resistance to the pressure to practice corporate law over public-interest law. He describes the debate within the HLS faculty over the Critical Legal Studies movement, essentially a struggle between radical and conservative theorists. But this is also Kahlenberg's own personal story, providing the same inside look at HLS that Scott Turow does in One L (Farrar, 1988. rev. ed.)--the anxieties and boredom of class, the pecularities of professors, and the fixation on grades. Unlike Turow, whose narrative ends with the first year of law school, Kahlenberg writes of his experiences from matriculation to commencement. A required purchase for any library holding One L .- Elizabeth Fielder Olson, Archer & Greiner, Haddonfield, N.J.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.