What are law schools for?
By: edited by P.B.H. Birks.
Contributors: Birks, Peter.
Series: Pressing problems in the law ;; v. 2
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Law -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.; Law schools -- Great Britain.; Law -- Study and teaching.; Law schools.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Scholarly and professional objectives in legal education : American trends and English comparisons / John H. Langbein; title: "Traditional legal scholarship" : a personal view / Gareth Jones; title: Legal education in the twenty-first century : a time of challenge / Eugene Clark and Martin Tsamenyi; title: A house of intellect for the profession / Nigel Savage and Gary Watt; title: Of Blackstone's tower : metaphors of distance and histories of the English law school / Peter Goodrich; title: The emperor's new skills : the academy, the profession and the idea of legal education / Stuart Toddington; title: Legal education in Germany / Hans Leser; title: The pervasive influence of European Community law in the United Kingdom / Nicholas Grief; title: The comparatist (or a plea for a broader legal education) / Basil S. Markesinis.