It would make the most sense coming from our President or our Executive
Secretary. :)
Or one of our famous interdisciplinarians (say, the renowned and
celebrated Daniel T. Ostas, J.D., Ph.D.) who can match Sarat's liberal
arts credentials, could make the reply.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: DANIEL HERRON [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:34 PM
To: Kenneth Schneyer; [log in to unmask]
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Chronicle article: Legal Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
Is this an issue that someone, either ALSB-sponsored or independently,
should be penning a response to?
Dan
>>> [log in to unmask] 08/31/04 3:26 PM >>>
I think some background would be helpful here.
I have seen, and spoken to, Austin Sarat at a number of conferences, and
his message, given several different ways, is pretty consistent: He
does not believe that lawyers should be teaching legal studies to
undergraduates. He believes that this is something liberal arts faculty
(sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, etc.) should be
doing. As I have attended a number of conferences in which humanities
(e.g., language & rhetoric) interact with law, and have even given
papers at such conferences, I have had the opportunity to see the way in
which he addresses such things. When there were failures in my own
analysis of the interaction between popular culture and law, he
attributed the failure to the fact that I'm a lawyer.
I think it's reasonable to guess that Sarat isn't actually unaware of
legal studies majors taught at business schools by lawyers. He just
doesn't believe in them.
Ken
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From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dunfee, Thomas
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:46 AM
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Subject: FW: Chronicle article: Legal Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
There is good news and bad news in this article. The good news is that
Sarat makes a sound case for teaching law to undergraduates using a
liberal arts perspective. The bad news is that he either discounts the
type of teaching done by ALSBers in general, or is woefully ignorant of
it. He doesn't know for example that there is a legal studies major at
Penn (through Wharton) and that the introductory legal studies course is
one of the informal core courses at the university. By informal, I mean
that although not required outside of Wharton, it is one of the top
drawing courses across Penn as a whole.
Thomas W. Dunfee
Kolodny Professor of Social Responsibility
Professor of Legal Studies
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
215-898-7691
-----Original Message-----
From: Kahn, Barbara E.
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 7:53 AM
To: Shell, G. Richard; Dunfee, Thomas
Subject: FW: Chronicle article: Legal Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
f.y.i.
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From: Peter Conn [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:44 AM
To: Kahn, Barbara E.; Rebecca Bushnell; ANNE KEANE; NORMAN I BADLER
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Chronicle article: Legal Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
Barbara:
Perhaps of particular interest to you. But more generally of interest to
all.
Peter
This article, "Legal Scholarship in the Liberal Arts," is
available online at this address:
http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=i736cdernzy3ni58kapeuhuq8dsrjzbd
This article will be available to non-subscribers of The
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