如何打造优秀的法学教育

朗戴尔法学教育理论和教学法是美国法学院占主导地位的教育模式,备受推崇。然而在理论上,它具有明显的缺陷;在实践中,则造成了学生与法律实践相脱节的后果。它认为法律学科的全部资料都储存在出版物之中。封闭性、复古性、考据性成为构建朗戴尔方法的基石,形成了一个建立在书本资料上的伪科学体系。法学院应当完全抛弃朗戴尔教学法,直接面对社会问题,在更高层次上回归学徒制度,以律师事务所模式为法学教育的核心,以执业者为教师,以现实社会中的法律问题为教学内容,刻不容缓地推行法学教育实验。

What Constitutes a Good Legal Education

The Langdell Educational Theory and the Method of Teaching Law has been the most admired and long dominant model of legal education in American law schools. Nevertheless, in theory, it has apparent flaws and, in practice, creates bad consequence of separating students from legal reality. It regards legal science contained in printed books. Seclusion, nostalgia and bookishness form the foundation of the Langdell Pedagogy and constitute a pseudo-scientific system based solely upon book-materials. Law schools must abandon the Langdell Pedagogy, face directly social problems, revert to the apprentice system of law teaching on a more sophisticated level, make law office as the center of law schools, employ practitioners as law teachers, use real legal issues in society as teaching materials and promote educational experiment.