The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle over Legal Education (Critical America)
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814706509 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Arthur Austin is the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Jurisprudence at Case Western Reserve University
The Empire, he believes, is imperious, closed-minded, and self-perpetuating; the Outsiders are too often paranoid, anti-pragmatic, and overly tolerant of fringe work. Is the new scholarship a vacuous, overpoliticized, soon-to-be-vanquished trend or the harbinger of an important new paradigm? Is reconciliation possible? Anyone with a vested interest in the answer to these questions, and in the future of law, cannot afford to miss Arthur Austin's invaluable volume.. At stake is nothing less than the entire enterprise of law and education, and t
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