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Two-Track Legal Education Coming to a Law School Near You?

By Eric Lipman

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What makes a good law school professor? This is a debate that, I daresay, will go on in perpetuity. Bruce brought you some of the latest thoughts on Friday, with his discussion centering on Brent Newton's recent law review article, and the reaction thereto. Yesterday at Balkinization, Jason Mazzone of Brooklyn Law School came up with a way to employ even more professors. Hooray! Mazzone suggests separating legal education into a "professional school" and an "academic law department." Say what now? Let me him elaborate: Under this approach, the professional school would be staffed by instructors whose job is to teach legal skills to lawyers-in-training. Instructors would not be expected to write books or articles. Instead, they would bring expertise in teaching practical skills. ... The academic law department would be very different from the professional school. It would be staffed by tenured and tenure-track professors. The principle [sic] task of these professors would be research and writing. Like faculty members in other departments, they would also teach (more on this below) but teaching would not be their main function. These professors would be career academics. OK. Where to start? Reading the entire post -- and it's not too long...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).