Article
A Community of Procedure Scholars: Teaching Procedure and the Legal Academy
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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2013
Keywords
- civil procedure,
- legal education,
- teaching,
- scholarship,
- comparative law,
- institutional support systems,
- public justice
Disciplines
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.