Law in the Liberal Arts / / ed. by Austin Sarat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abramson, Jeffrey,; Bybee, Keith J.,; Constable, Marianne,; Goodman, J. Douglas,; Hartog, Hendrik,; Sage Heinzelman, Susan,; Sarat, Austin,; Silbey, Susan S.,; White, James Boyd,
• HerausgeberIn: Sarat, Austin,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; SITUATING LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE LIBERAL ARTS. AN INTRODUCTION --; ONE. PERSPECTIVES ON LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE LIBERAL ARTS --; DEFENDING LIBERAL EDUCATION FROM THE LAW --; THE LIBERAL ARTS, LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP, AND THE DEMOCRATIC CRITIQUE OF JUDICIAL POWER --; ON NOT LEAVING LAW TO THE LAWYERS --; CROSSING BOUNDARIES: FROM DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES TO AN INTEGRATED CONCEPTION OF LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP --; TWO. EXAMPLES OF LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE LIBERAL ARTS --; MEANING WHAT YOU SAY --; TEACHING CIVIL LIBERTIES AS A BRANCH OF POLITICAL THEORY: TOLERANCE VERSUS RESPECT --; ROMANCING THE QUOTATION --; "TERMES QUEINTE OF LAWE" AND QUAINT FANTASIES OF LITERATURE --; Contributors --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501729843; 9783110536157
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501729843
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Austin Sarat.

Should law be left to the lawyers? Is legal education properly understood as technical education? Law in the Liberal Arts answers "no" and suggests that our society is not well served by the current professionalization of legal knowledge. An ideal approach to legal education, in Austin Sarat's view, would open up law and legal knowledge by making them the proper objects of inquiry in the liberal arts.Legal education in the United States is generally located in law schools dedicated to professional training. Sarat believes that this situation impoverishes our ability to see the complex relations of law, culture, and society in all their variety and to connect theorizing about law with its application in the humanities and social sciences. The contributors to this book aim to assess the place of legal scholarship in the liberal arts by asking whether and how legal research and pedagogy are different in liberal arts settings than they are in law schools.