Legal education is seen as too narrow because it fails to develop in students ways of thinking within and about the role of lawyers--methods of critical analysis, planning and decision-making that are conceptual foundations for practical skills. (MLW)

As law schools shed their pervasive elitism, clinical training will grow in scope and importance. Lawyers who meet the demands of a broad-based clientele cannot function with the limited skills that traditional education has provided. Law schools will have to train people to operate independently. (MLW)

The law school curriculum is excessively committed to doctrinal learning as differentiated from (1) theoretical and (2) practical learning. Law schools have an educational responsibility to offer their students a modicum of instruction in the applied skills of legal representation. (MLW)

Because law schools need facilities to provide their students with clinical experience and the Legal Services Corporation has the resources and facilities but needs the manpower to serve the legal needs of the poor, it is argued that third year law students should intern with the Corporation. (JMD)

In order to give direction to his career and specifically to his remaining year of law school, the author, a law student at Emory University, interrupted his schooling to spend a year in self-selected legal clerkships. His experiences and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of such a program are presented. (JMD)

The law review, it is suggested, is a species of publication that exists primarily to be written, not to be read. How the institution came into being, how a law review actually functions, and the consequences of the dominant law review pattern for legal education and the profession are examined. (Author/MLW)

Resulting from a conference co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Law School and the American Bar Association (ABA), this book explores recent innovations in legal education, specifically those "apprenticeship" programs in clinical and client counseling. Papers include: "The Problem of Teaching Lawyer Competency" (Fernand N. Dutile); "Opening Remarks"…