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The Ordinary Religion of the Law School Classroom

Submitted by Joe Hoffman on Tue, 11-10-2009
Author(s)
Cramton, Roger C.
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Publication
Journal of Legal Education
Volume number
29
Year
1977
First page number
247
Country
United States
Abstract
Cramton, then Dean of Cornell Law School, examined the “value system” implicit in modern legal education and the implications of the value system from a “moral and religious perspective.” He supports the thesis that the value system’s “essential ingredients” include, among other things, “an instrumental approach to law and lawyering” and “faith that man, by the application of his reason and the use of democratic processes, can make the world a better place.”
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