Changing Objectives in Legal Education

IT may be said without much question that there is more activityin the law school world today than there has been at any timewithin the last generation or two. Things are in a state of flux-the culmination of a long period of suggestion and countersuggestionwith little change. The addition of new courses tothe curriculum, the general re-arrangement of existing coursesto admit various types of non-legal materials, new approaches inlegal thought, new ideas concerning teaching methods, the adventof fact research, and a dawning awareness of the existenceof other social sciences than law, all testify to a rapidly changingworld. But while there is thus much acceleration and somemotion, it is safe to say also that there is far less idea of directionthan apparently existed during the last sixty years. The oldlaw school objectives have to some extent been swept aside andnew ones have not yet been adequately formulated. It is hereproposed to examine the older order briefly in the light of recentdevelopments and to attempt a statement of possible present objectivesin terms of concrete curricular re-adjustment