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A Community of Procedure Scholars: Teaching Procedure and the Legal Academy
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  • Elizabeth Thornburg, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
  • Erik S Knutsen, Queen's University
  • Carla Crifo', Leicester Law School
  • Camille Cameron, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2013
Keywords
  • civil procedure,
  • legal education,
  • teaching,
  • scholarship,
  • comparative law,
  • institutional support systems,
  • public justice
Abstract

This article asks whether the way in which procedure is taught has an impact on the extent and accomplishments of a scholarly community of proceduralists. Not surprisingly, we find a strong correlation between the placement of procedure as a required course in an academic context and the resulting body of scholars and scholarship. Those countries in which more civil procedure is taught as part of a university degree — and in which procedure is recognized as a legitimate academic subject — have larger scholarly communities, a larger and broader corpus of works analyzing procedural issues, and a richer web of institutional support systems that inspire, fund, and shape the study of public justice.

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Citation Information
Elizabeth G Thornburg et al, "A Community of Procedure Scholars: Teaching Procedure and the Legal Academy" (2013) 51:1 Osgoode Hall LJ 93.