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17 W. Mich. U. Cooley J. Prac. & Clinical L. 265 (2015-2016)
Discarding the Fiction of the Practice-Ready Law Graduate to Reclaim Law as a Profession

handle is hein.journals/tmcjpcl17 and id is 283 raw text is: DISCARDING THE FICTION OF THE PRACTICE-READY LAW GRADUATE TO RECLAIM LAW AS A PROFESSION Martha Kanter and Grace Dodier * Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, offaith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. - Martha Graham' TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ..................................................................... 266 A. THE PRACTICE-READY MOVEMENT AND ITS ORIGIN S ................................................................................... 270 B. THE LIMITATIONS OF THE PRACTICE-READY CURRICULUM ........................................................................ 275 C. RECLAIMING LAW AS A PROFESSION ...................... 281 D. THE LAW SCHOOL AND THE LAW SCHOOL APPLICANT ............................................................................. 283 E. THE LAW SCHOOL AND THE LAW STUDENT ......... 285 F. THE LAW SCHOOL AND THE BAR .............................. 290 CONCLUSION ......................................................................... 292 *Martha Kanter and Grace Dodier are Clinical Associate Professors of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. The authors thank the following for their critique of drafts of the article and their encouragement to see this project through to completion: Louis J. Sirico, Jr., the Director of the Legal Writing Program at Villanova University School of Law and participants in the Legal Writing Institute's Writers Workshop Summer 2014; Michelle S. Falkoff, Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; and Ellen S. Mulaney, Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. We also thank Heidi Kuehl who was, until recently, the Pritzker Legal Research Center's Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian and Coordinator of Educational Programming and Outreach; and Pritzker Fellow, Ryan Sugg, for their research assistance. Finally, we are grateful to former Northwestern University law student Alan Campbell who provided invaluable editorial assistance. 1BRAINYQUOTE, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/ m/marthagrahl 13628.html (last visited June 12, 2016).

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