How Lawyers (Come to) See the World: A Narrative Theory of Legal Pedagogy Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Even if one believes that law is not an autonomous discipline, few would dispute that it is a conservative institution and that its members are trained via a pedagogical method quite different from that of other professions. A central aspect of this training is the case method and thus the specialized narrative form that appellate opinions take. This essay examines the case method and suggests ways to crack it open without discarding it and thereby achieve one of the goals set forth in the Carnegie Report: namely, to supplement the analytical, rule-based mode of reasoning inherent in the method.

published proceedings

  • Loyola law review

author list (cited authors)

  • Gordon, R. D.

complete list of authors

  • Gordon, Randy D

publication date

  • January 2010