01:790:373 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Critical Legal Studies, Legal Realism, Legal Formalism
29 Nov 2018
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Legal education as training for hierarchy (duncan kennedy) Can they create law: law is a concepted created to serve human interest, in a capitalist society, law is created to serve the interst of capitalist, they do not reflect an objective reality. Because the strategies used by firms with higher smart, expensive lawyers can use all kind of tactics to make sure they don"t loose. Job that will earn you enough money to pay this: get a job in corporate law, kenedy is talking about other pressures that go on in law school. Interesting case which talks about little guy getting screwed over. Law school professors create hierarchical environment: law school professors white male middle class teachers" create hierarchic environment. Highly cognitive, dominating mode of discourse = lawyerlike: talk and think like a lawyer, a lawyer letters, are nasty and mean, create an image that you a strong and can fight.
