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13 J. Legal Educ. 301 (1960-1961)
A Jurisprudence of Lawyers' Operations

handle is hein.journals/jled13 and id is 311 raw text is: JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION Volume 13 Number 3 A JURISPRUDENCE OF LAWYERS' OPERATIONS IRVIN C. RUTTER * This is a report on conclusions resulting from four years of experi- mentation at the College of Law of the University of Cincinnati in the development of a series of courses that have now acquired the self- conferred dignity of a name, institutionalized in the annual bulletin as the Applied Skills Program. The endeavor had its origin in a mandate to devise a workable solution of what appeared to be the limited problem of the lawyer's craft-skills, often pejoratively referred to as practical training. As the work progressed, it became evident, in tracing back the lineage of the problem, that I was entangled in many other apparent- ly distinct problems of legal education that turned out to be different facets of the same inquiry, with its ancestry reaching beyond legal edu- cation to a re-examination of the meaning of law in the professional 6per- ations of the lawyer. To avoid the diffuseness that would result from an attempt to elaborate the larger implications in the limited space of the present paper, I propose to hew close to the line of concrete curricular discussion, with only such background as may be useful in inviting criticism and encouraging fur- ther progress by others, simply indicating some of the strands of that seamless web that is inevitably encountered on a comprehensive approach to any problem. The scope of the discussion may be derived from a preliminary sum- mary statement of conclusions. 1. The question of practical skills training is not one of a choice between theory and practice, nor is it simply a matter of adding one or more courses to the existing curriculum. The larger problem, ob- scured by the limiting terms in which practical training has been dis- cussed, involves a re-examination of the consequences flowing from the fact that law schools have been concerned substantially with the teaching of doctrine, with only incidental attention to professional legal opera- * Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati. 13 Journal of Legal Ed.No.3 301

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