A whole lot of jurisprudence in America (and Canada too, as far as I can tell) justifies itself by appealing to “reasonableness,” or something like it. And what’s “reasonable,” the law will tell you if you press it, has to do with what a sensible expectation for human behavior should be. However, when […]

At the time, I was in transit between one snowed-under Canadian metropolis and another deep-frozen one, and so maybe that’s how I missed this. But at the end of November the Stanford Law School announced that it would not be one-upped by Harvard’s plans to dramatically reform the long-standing American law school curriculum. […]

About a month ago, Harvard Law School decided to reform its first-year curriculum—a slate of courses in use for over a century by just about every American law school. People thought that was a big deal, but it’s nothing whatever compared to what’s about to happen in the United Kingdom.
This past Thursday, Her Majesty’s Government […]

This post will not mark the first time I have questioned the American law school and bar admissions system. But today I got the latest issue of the ABA Journal and saw where a Richland, WA, lawyer had written in to complain about the Journal’s August cover story on minority women lawyers and how […]

Behind closed doors this past Thursday, the faculty of Harvard Law School voted to majorly reform the first-year curriculum, a curriculum begun in the 1870s by HLS dean Christopher Columbus Langdell and that has been in place for over a century in damn near every U.S. law school. The way it was was Contracts, […]