Philip C. Kissam teaches constitutional law, immigration law and jurisprudence at the University of Kansas School of Law.
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
3
(14)
Basic Practices
17
(54)
Elite and Non-Elite Law Schools
19
(4)
Professional Expectations
23
(2)
The Core Curriculum
25
(6)
Casebooks
31
(6)
The Case Method
37
(13)
Law School Examinations
50
(8)
The Institutions of Scholarship
58
(8)
The Placement Process
66
(5)
Space and Time
71
(22)
Spatial Relationships
71
(10)
The Buildings
72
(1)
Amphitheatre Classrooms
73
(4)
Courtrooms and Clinics
77
(1)
Other Spaces
78
(3)
Temporal Relationships
81
(12)
Student Rhythms
81
(4)
Faculty Rhythms
85
(8)
Disciplinary Techniques
93
(32)
Invisibilities
93
(3)
Coolness
96
(3)
Rituals, Symbols, Myths
99
(6)
The Examinatorial Regime
105
(8)
A Confessional Technology
113
(4)
The Discourse of Law Schools
117
(3)
Coda: The Pleasures of the Discipline
120
(5)
Reform
125
(60)
The Reform Tradition
127
(7)
The Professional Reforms
134
(26)
Legal Writing Programs
138
(8)
Clinical Education
146
(8)
Professional Ethics
154
(6)
Academic/Political Movements
160
(25)
Law and Economics
164
(3)
The Law and Society Movement
167
(3)
Law and Literature
170
(2)
Critical Legal Studies
172
(3)
Feminist Jurisprudence
175
(5)
Critical Race Theory
180
(5)
Foreign Relations
185
(42)
The Diffuse Influence of Legal Practices
185
(3)
Corporate Law Firms
188
(12)
The Judicial System
200
(3)
The Organized Bar
203
(8)
The Research University
211
(9)
The State and Culture
220
(7)
Ethics
227
(42)
Major Consequences of the Discipline
228
(3)
Possible Selves, Possible Ethics
231
(12)
The Ethics of a Dialogical Self
243
(26)
The Moral Conversation
245
(4)
Deconstructing the Discipline
249
(11)
Reconstructions
260
(9)
Epilogue. Our Disciplinary Future
269
(8)
Index
277
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