Shaping the Bar The Future of Attorney Licensing.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Howarth, Joan
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	Admission to the bar > United States. Bar examinations > United States. Law > Study and teaching > United States.
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Part One. The Attorney Licensing Crisis and How We Got Here
1. The Crisis in Attorney Licensing
2. Becoming a Lawyer in the Young Nation
3. Shaping the Bar in the Twentieth Century
4. The 1970s Legacy of Activism, Psychometrics, and Good Faith
5. Pressure Points in Contemporary Licensing
Part Two. Slouching Towards Minimum Competence
6. Decades Lost Without Research
7. Doubling Down on the Errors of Legal Education
8. Finally, Research on Minimum Competence
Part Three. Character and Fitness: The Right Stuff
9. Who Fits?
10. Fixing Character and Fitness
Part Four. The Future: Competence-Based Alignment of Experience, Education, and Exams
11. Twelve Guiding Principles
12. Clinical Residencies
13. Asking More of Law Schools
14. Escaping the Conceptual Traps of Today's Bar Exams
15. Bar Exams: Better, Best, and Other Fixes
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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