Movements in legal education across the branches of disciples

Abstract

In this study the appearance of legal education in legal theories has been set forth reflecting on the Law and Literature Movement, the Critical Legal Studies Movement. The “crit” scholars, and also scholars from some classes of the Law and Literature Movement argued that law is nothing more than politics in a different form. These scholars attempted to show that legal education is close to ideological education, but it is necessary to emphasize that when these thinkers regarded law as politics, they could not address the legal questions properly. In spite of these movements can enrich legal instruction and the so-called academic legal thinking as well. (Nevertheless, opposite opinions have been found in the legal philosophy and sociology, for instance Richard Posner who emphasizing that theoretical paradox emerged from their interdisciplinary point-of-view.)

Though the main difference between the two (above mentioned) movements is the Critical Legal Studies has attempted to change the legal system and the existing social system or maybe more through their way of thinking. But the Law and Literature movement just try to break through the boundaries between the different ways (more branches of knowledge) of thinking about the field of law.