After Ten Years: The Carnegie Report and Contemporary Legal Education
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AFTER TEN YEARS:
THE CARNEGIE REPORT AND
CONTEMPORARY LEGAL EDUCATION
WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN*
I. INTRODUCTION
Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law, which
quickly became known as the Carnegie Report, appeared in 2007.1 Its
wide reception and the interest it generated were naturally gratifying to its
authors. Appearing shortly after another study of law school pedagogy, the
Best Practices in Legal Education by Roy Stuckey and colleagues (Best
Practices), and fifteen years following the milestone MacCrate Report of
the American Bar Association (ABA), Educating Lawyers became part of a
large controversy in the field of legal education over whether and how law
schools needed to change in order to meet professional demands and public
need.2 This controversy has fermented, as this conference illustrates, to in-
volve ever more participants within the law school world and beyond in
legal practice and other professions. This paper intends to make some con-
tribution to this increasingly important conversation concerning the im-
provement and reshaping of legal education.
The paper will proceed in three steps. First, it will review the aims of
the Carnegie Report, the context from which it came, and its public recep-
tion over the past decade. Then, it will outline the strategies for changing
legal education that emerged in response to issues raised by the Carnegie
Report. Finally, it will take up the question of the issues that an update of
* Senior Scholar, New American Colleges and Universities; Visiting Professor, Center for
the Study of Professions, University College, Oslo, Norway; former Senior Scholar, Center of
Inquiry, Wabash College; Founding Director, Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers; former Senior
Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; former Professor of Philosophy,
La Salle University; Ph.D. Philosophy, Fordham University.
1. WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN ET AL., EDUCATING LAWYERS: PREPARATION FOR THE PROFESSION
OF LAW (2007) [hereinafter EDUCATING LAWYERS].
2. Roy STUCKEY ET AL., BEST PRACTICES FOR LEGAL EDUCATION (2007); TASK FORCE ON
LAW SCH. & LEGAL PROFESSION: NARROWING THE GAP, AM. BAR ASS'N, LEGAL EDUCATION AND
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT-AN EDUCATIONAL CONTINUUM (1992).](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/usthomlj14&div=14&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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