LAW705

There are no prerequisites. May satisfy the writing requirement.

This GPA seminar will critically examine American legal education to investigate how law schools reflect and create societal values, professional norms, and racial, gender, and identity subordination. From the glossators of Rome to the proliferation of law schools across the United States, the course will provide students with a historical overview and comparative context for understanding and analyzing the development and administration of legal education in the United States. The course will also function as a laboratory where enrolled students engage with law professors and administrators working to reimagine and reframe the goals of legal education. The course will address pressing, contemporary issues of American legal education including, but not limited to, its limited forms of instruction and evaluation methods, policy arguments to reform legal education, the national spotlight on critical race theory, and the underrepresentation of people of color in the legal academy and profession.