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Mary Ann Glendon
Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University. Author of A Nation Under Lawyers and others.
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Lionel Astor Sheridan
Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Wales College of Cardiff. Coauthor of Equity.
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legal education, preparation for the practice of law. Instruction in law has been offered in universities since medieval times, but, since the advent of university-based law schools in the 18th and 19th centuries, legal education has faced the challenge of reconciling its aim of teaching law as one of the academic disciplines with its goal of preparing persons to become members of a profession. Most law schools have tried to find a middle path between being a mere trade school and being a citadel of pure theory. Unfortunately, the criticism is sometimes made that these efforts result in a type ...(100 of 5349 words)

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