Document Type
Response or Comment
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
AALS
Language
en-US
Abstract
Academic critics contend that legal scholarship is overly argumentative or too “normative,” simply stating what the law should be, as well as what the law is. It isn’t about pure scholarship’s pursuit of knowledge within the discipline of a recognized academic field. Critics from the bar and the judiciary proffer the opposite complaint: legal scholarship is too academic and not professional enough, enamored with fads, unmoored from any discipline and of little use to the practicing lawyer or sitting judge. Law schools’ legions of cost-conscious critics complain that paying high salaries to professors with low course loads drives up tuitions. Many professors themselves have serious misgivings about this scholarly enterprise. There is a grain of truth in all these complaints.
Recommended Citation
Danielle K. Citron & Robin West,
On Legal Scholarship
,
in
Current Issues in Legal Education
(2014).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/75
Publisher URL
https://www.aals.org/current-issues-in-legal-education/legal-scholarship/
