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Reflections on U.S. Law Curricular Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Toni M. Fine

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There has not been dramatic reform to legal education for many years. Although changes to the way we train students to be lawyers certainly have been made in the past decades, there has not been occasion to fundamentally re-think the process for educating lawyers.

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Section 1: ‘Same Ol’, Same Ol'?' Reflecting on Curricular Reform
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German Law Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 6-7: Following the Call of the Wild: The Promises and Perils of Transnationalizing Legal Education , July 2009 , pp. 717 - 750
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Copyright © 2009 by German Law Journal GbR 

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