Liberal Education and the Law: A Bibliography.

Overview & Synopsis

This annotated bibliography on liberal education and the law is divided into 5 sections: (1) publications dealing with the general nature of legal practice, the profession, history of law, and the legal profession that are relevant to legal education, and legal education and its history; (2) materials on the subject of the appropriate preliminary education for the study of law; (3) materials that consider the general value of liberal education for the practice of law, and discuss prelegal study and legal study together; (4) materials dealing with the expansion and liberalization of the law curriculum itself; and (5) items that dissent from the endeavors to require liberal prelegal education and the effort to broaden the teaching of law. Within each section, the items are listed by books, periodicals, and reports. (AF)