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Is 'Thinking Like a Lawyer' Really What We Want to Teach?

Nancy B. Rapoport
William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV

Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, Vol. 1, p. 91, 2002

Abstract:
This article argues that the phrase thinking like a lawyer assumes that other professions don't have their own ways of approaching problems and that law schools only need to teach how lawyers think, rather than how lawyers do what they do. It suggests that law schools should do much more than just teach law students how to think.

Keywords: legal education, lawyers, attorneys, higher education

JEL Classifications: K00

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Date posted: October 10, 2006 ; Last revised: February 25, 2008

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Rapoport, Nancy B., Is 'Thinking Like a Lawyer' Really What We Want to Teach?. Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, Vol. 1, p. 91, 2002. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=936248

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