Title: Political Science, the Judicial Process, and a Legal Education.
Abstract: Legal education is undergoing a period of ferment and change. The emergence of the social sciences and the mounting complexity of the modern world are being reflected in law school curricula and prescriptive thinking about law school curricula.1 Increasingly, the adequacy of the traditional orientations and pedagogy of the law school have been called into question. Of late, new legal journals 2 and new approaches to the law 3 have multiplied at an accelerating pace. This movement has been enthusiastically embraced by some and regarded with unalloyed skepticism or fear by others.4 Both sides might profit from an examination of political science. On the one hand, political science, as a social science, has new approaches, methodologies, and substantive knowledge to contribute to legal education; on the other hand, political science, or at least one facet of it, as a discipline closely associated with the study of law, can serve as a model for the use and utility of behavioral methods in addressing many of the same questions and materials discussed in law schools.
Publication Year: 1973
Publication Date: 1973-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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