The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle Over Legal Education

by Arthur Austin and Scott Christianson

Once dismissed as plodding and superfluous, legal scholarship is increasingly challenging the liberal white male establishment that currently dominates legal education and practice. The most significant development since the emergence of the casebook, at the turn of the century, this trend has unleashed a fierce political struggle. At stake is nothing less than the entire enterprise of law and education, and thus a powerful platform from which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814706509
• ISBN13: 9780814706503
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.7" x 9.2"