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Legal pedagogy and its discontents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2020

Richard Abel
Richard Abel*
Affiliation:
Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: abel@law.ucla.edu
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Abstract

I taught torts and legal profession at six US law schools over the course of forty years (1969–2008). This paper describes my efforts to incorporate socio-legal studies and critical legal studies into my teaching and my reflections on how successful this was.

Keywords

tortslegal professionsocio-legal studieslaw and societycritical legal studies
Type
Reflections
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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 77 - 93
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This is the first of a series of ‘Reflections’ in which leading writers in the field of sociology of law will be asked to reflect on their experience of writing, teaching, researching or policy-making.

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