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16 Bimonthly Rev. L. Books 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/bimrvlab16 and id is 1 raw text is: Bimonthly Review Of La Volume 16, No. 1 January/February 2005 aw Books Online at: http://www.nesl.edu/library/bimonthly Interview with Jean Stefancic & Richard Delgado Authors of How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails its Creative Minds (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005), ISBN 0-8223-3454-2 Cloth - $69.95; ISBN 0-8223-3563-8 Paperback - $19.95, pp. 152. Interviewed by Michael L. Rustad, Co-Editor, Bimonthly Review of Law Books MR: You argue that lawyers are an unhappy lot, plagued by alcohol and drug addictions, divorce, depression and suicide, not to mention their 'justifiable paranoia' that people are out to get them and the public regards them with disdain. You note the unhappiness begins in law school. Do you wonder why so many Americans apply to and attend law school? JS/RD: Probably because of TV shows and popular novels glamorizing lawyers or making law school sound like a cool, intellectual version of Marine boot camp, something that will make you tougher and stronger. Many students with broad humanities backgrounds come to law school because they realize that further training in the fields they really love, such as literature or history, will not offer them a way to make a living. And there's that old parental mantra: I hope my son or daughter grows up to be a professional. What all the studies show is that within a few months of entering law school, many students realize they have made a bad mistake. Law school is not so much intellectually stimulating as boring, and the rewards that await those who stick it out are not what they are cracked up to be. MR: What do you teach, and do you teach differently from standard law school instruction to allow for a more humanistic classroom experience? JS: We teach courses in race and civil rights. Richard, separately, teaches civil procedure. We try in all our courses to impart a broad vision of law and its possibilities and encourage students to consider alternative law careers, such as teaching, judicial clerkships, public interest law, and law reform. We teach interdisciplinary insights- history, social science, even economics, to drive home the idea of law as a broad humanistic discipline, and constantly challenge our students to consider the social, non-doctrinal consequences of cases and statutes, as well as the lawyer's role in ushering in change and reform. MR: Formalism, as you define it, is a habit of mind and a type of social organization that attempts perversely to narrow one's focus beyond that which a situation requires In This Issue Interview with Jean Stefancic & Richard Delgado by Michael L. Rustad Implementation of the Data Protection Directive Privity: Private Justice or Public Regulation From Grassroots to the Supreme Court The Communitarian Constitution Elder Injury, Neglect and Abuse The Human Right to Water Datebase Review Restoring Trust in Business Books Reviewed Authors Reviewed Nota Bander Rear View Review: How Lawyers Lose Their Way 1 4 5 6 7 9 15 16 17 19 20 20 24 1 Next Issue: Technology, Intellectual Property and Internet Law Bimonthly Review ofLaw Books January/February 2005

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