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“While Knowledge Abounds, Skills Are What Counts”: - An Essay About the Attorney of Tomorrow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Jörg Risse

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What are the key qualifications for tomorrow's attorney? And how do we have to structure legal education to teach the so-determined qualifications? The answers to both questions seem difficult, if not impossible, since they require a prediction of how the legal market will develop. However, as with most difficult questions, the answers prove to be easier than expected: In this case, they may be embodied in two poems by the German poet Erich Kästner (1899-1974) which are quite meaningful, not only in our regard. The first poem reads:

Wissen ist Macht,

wie schief gedacht,

Wissen ist wenig,

Können ist König.

Type
Private Law
Information
German Law Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , 01 February 2004 , pp. 143 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © 2004 by German Law Journal GbR 

References

1 See, e.g., Schlechtriem, Peter, The German Act to Modernize the Law of Obligations in the Context of Common Principles and Structures of the Law of Obligations in Europe, Oxford University Comparative Law Forum, http://ouclf.iuscomp.org/articles/schlechtriem2.shtml; Hans Schulte-Nölke, The New German Law of Obligations: an Introduction, http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/literature/schulte-noelke.htm; Reinhard Zimmermann, Breach of Contract and Remedies under the new German Law of Obligations, http://w3.uniroma1.it/idc/centro/publications/48zimmermann.pdf.Google Scholar

2 See for example: www.law.berkeley.edu/cenpro/clinical/; www.law.nyu.edu/clinics/; www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/.Google Scholar