Universities must Impart Practical Empirical Education in Law Courses
UNIVERSITIES MUST IMPART PRACTICAL EMPIRICAL EDUCATION IN LAW COURSES Aviva Jogani, 3 rd Year, BA.LLB (Hons.), Jindal Global Law School Editorial Note: In this blog, the author emphasizes the need for incorporating elements of empirical and practical education within the law school curriculum in order to truly train law students for success in their legal careers. Duncan Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School, wrote an article titled “Legal Education and Reproduction of Hierarchy” in 1982, in which he referred to law school as a political place for those who are willing to function in a hierarchy of a corporate welfare state. 1 In his article, Kennedy states that the language of the coded law and the manner in which legal reasoning is taught by professors in law school are incomprehensible for students, just as they are for any layman. The authoritarian nature of teachers coupled with their biased views is what guides Kennedy to describe law school as an “ intensely