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3 Calif. L. Rev. Circuit 1 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/callro3 and id is 1 raw text is: California Law Review Circuit VOL. 3 JANUARY 2012 Copyright (© 2012 by California Law Review, Inc. AALS Section on Law and Humanities Excavating and Integrating Law and Humanities in the Core Curriculum 2012 AALS Annual Meeting - January 4-8, 2012 - Washington, D.C. Law School for Poets Melissa Murray* INTRODUCTION Like many who attend law school, I was an undergraduate history major. The humanities, my college pre-professional advisor assured me, were ideal preparation for the rigors of law school. I believed the hype. Three years later, on my first day of Contracts, my blind faith in the inherent compatibility of the humanities and legal education was rewarded with a sinking feeling that would, in time, give way to nausea. I had been duped. I had envisioned exuberant discussions led by a pipe-smoking, tweed-jacketed professor about the great moments in the history of contract law. Instead, the class began with the professor (sans pipe and tweed jacket) scrawling the Coase Theorem on the chalkboard. There were numbers. I felt the bile rising in my throat. Although I learned to deal with the numbers, I could not help feeling that something was missing from the experience. Where was the social and historical context that could illuminate these doctrines? As we marched methodically through the substance of each course, we never stopped to dwell on the connections that linked cases that were thematically distinct, but connected contextually and chronologically. Copyright © 2012 California Law Review, Inc. California Law Review, Inc. (CLR) is a California nonprofit corporation. CLR and the authors are solely responsible for the content of their publications. * Professor of Law, University of California-Berkeley, School of Law. Many thanks to Joshua Hill and Rose Villazor for their helpful connents. Musetta Durkee and the staff of the California Law Review provided excellent editorial assistance. This foreword is dedicated to Laura Kalman, who helped me recover my inner humanist.

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