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

Rapoport, Nancy

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

Nancy B. Rapoport

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

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

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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.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 18

Keywords: legal education, lawyers, attorneys, higher education

JEL Classification: K00

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Date posted: October 10, 2006

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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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