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Is "Thinking Like a Lawyer" Really What We Want to Teach?

Nancy B. Rapoport, University of Houston Law Center (moving to Boyd School of Law, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, in summer 2007

Abstract

This article argues that the phrase thinking like a lawyer assumes that other professions don't have their own ways of approaching problems and that law schools only need to teach how lawyers think, rather than how lawyers do what they do. It suggests that law schools should do much more than just teach law students how to think.

Suggested Citation

Nancy B. Rapoport. "Is "Thinking Like a Lawyer" Really What We Want to Teach?" Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors 1 (2002): 91-108.