THE AIMS OF LEGAL EDUCATION

Legal education general has a number of theoretical and practical aims, not all of which are pursued simultaneously. One aim is to make a student familiar with legal concepts and institution and with characteristics modes of reasoning. Like most intellectual disciplines the law has its technical concepts, frequently expressed in technical terms. All lawyers must become acquainted with process of making law, setting disputes; they must study the structure of government and the organization of courts of law, including the system of appeals.

Another aim of legal education is he teaching of law in its social, economic, and scientific context. While law schools have never ignored the social context of their subject, Anglo-American legal education has always been less interdisciplinary than that of continental Europe. With the development of a scientific approach to social studies in the 20^th century, however, this is changing. Some law schools appoint economists, psychologists, or sociologists to their stuffs, while other require or permit their students to take courses outside the law school as part of their work toward degree. This awareness of the other social studies is thought to be more advanced in the United States than in Great Britain. Continental legal education tends to be highly interdisciplinary, with non-legal subjects compulsory for students taking their first degree in law.

The chief materials are the same everywhere: codes (where these exist), reports of court decisions, legislation, government and other public reports, textbooks, and articles in learned periodicals. The aim is not so much that the student should remember “the law” as that he should understand basic concepts and methods and become sufficiently familiar with a law library to carry put the necessary research on any legal problem that may come his way.

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