Conversations, choices, and chances : the liberal law school in the twenty-first century

Most academics in university law schools would claim to offer a liberal education. Few have thought very much about what a liberal education in law means. Basing itself on a detailed examination of the theory of liberal education, this book looks at what the liberal university law school should be doing in terms of its teaching, research and administration. Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 9 1 The Excitement and the Malaise Introduction......Page 13 2 Holistic Education What is a Liberal Education......Page 43 3 Missions for Law Schools The Liberal University Law School......Page 75 4 The Pass Less Trodden: The Liberal Curriculum......Page 97 5 Conversations Research in the Liberal Law School......Page 117 6 A Necessary Evil or Simply Necessary Administration......Page 143 7 A Short History of Madness Accountability Audit and Liberal Education......Page 167 8 This I Do for Love Avocation and Vocation in the University Law School......Page 201 Index......Page 217 Excitement crackles and malaise seeps through contemporary British law schools, says Bradney (law, Leicester U.), and he analyzes why and how both current can be running at the same time. He also challenges law schools to pursue a liberal education, which he contends will maintain the excitement and purge the malaise. Distributed in the US by ISBS This book examines, in detail, what the liberal university law school should be doing in terms of its teaching, research and administration.