The following is a brief selection of perspectives on the past, present, and future of law schools and the legal profession.
A. Reports and Prescriptions for Legal Education
[1] William M. Sullivan, Anne Colby, Judith Welch Wegner, Lloyd Bond, Lee S. Shulman, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (2007) (the “Carnegie Report”)
Summary available here
[2] Legal Education and Professional Development-An Educational Continuum: Report of the Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap, 1992 A.B.A. Sec. on Legal Educ. & Admission to the Bar (the “MacCrate Report”)
Full text available here
[3] Herbert L. Packer & Thomas Ehrlich, New Directions in Legal Education: A Report Prepared for the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education (1972) [including copies of [4], next, and Calvin Woodard, The Limits of Legal Realism: An Historical Perspective, 54 Va. L. Rev. 689 (1968)]
Woodard is available here
[4] Training for the Public Professions of the Law, the report of the Curriculum Study Project Committee of the AALS, chaired by Paul Carrington, University of Michigan (1971)
[5] Alfred Zantzinger Reed, Training for the Public Profession of the Law (1921)
Full text available here
[6] Josef Redlich, The Common Law and the Case Method in American University Law Schools (1914)
Full text available here
B. Critiques and Analyses of Legal Education and the Legal Profession
[1] John Henry Schlegel, To Dress for Dinner: Teaching Law in a Bureaucratic Age, 66 Buff. L. Rev. 435 (2018)
Full text available here
[2] Bill Henderson, posts at Legal Evolution, https://www.legalevolution.org/ (2017-2018 and continuing)
[3] The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law Center, 2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market
Full text available here
[4] Frank A. Pasquale, A Rule of Persons, Not Machines: The Limits of Legal Automation, Geo. Wash. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2018)
Full draft text available here
[5] Richard Susskind, Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future (2d ed. 2017)
Preview of the first edition (2013) available here
[6] Gillian K. Hadfield, Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy (2016)
Preview available here
[7] Brian Z. Tamanaha, Failing Law Schools (2012)
Preview available here
[8] Bernard L. Burk & David McGowan, Big But Brittle: Economic Perspectives on the Future of the Law Firm in the New Economy, 2011 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 1
Full text available here
[9] Robert Stevens, Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s (1983)
Preview available here
[10] Alfred S. Konefsky & John Henry Schlegel, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Histories of American Law Schools, 95 Harv. L. Rev. 833 (1982)
Full text available here
[11] Karl Llewellyn, On What is Wrong With So-Called Legal Education, 35 Colum. L. Rev. 65 (1935)
C. The Spring 2018 Prawfsblawg Symposium: “The Futures of Legal Education: A Virtual Symposium”
The framing paper: Mike Madison, An Invitation Regarding Law and Legal Education, and Imagining the Future. Full text here
Symposium posts: