My Former Professor on the Purpose of Law School

Balkinization: "'Lawyers are not 'produced' or even 'trained' by law schools,' declared former AALS President Reese Hansen in opposition to the changes (critics who excoriate law schools for doing a poor job of training lawyers would heartily agree, though Hansen undoubtedly did not mean to imply that). 'What lawyers must ultimately deliver is judgment....That kind of mature judgment is primarily created by personal interaction between individual faculty and individual students in countless educational settings.'"