Article takes into account the functional view of legal education and the experiential process in law teaching-learning. (HS)

The humanistic orientation of students at different points in their law school experiences was examined to determine whether this value changed markedly from entrance to graduation, and whether alumni practitioners and teachers held the same or different views from their students.

Structural and functional characteristics of legal education define law learning in terms that determine, through the kind of professionals it trains, the strongest possibilities for societal use of law. (Author/KE)

Despite the myths and the movies, law teaching does little more than the most obvious things for its students. It is a sometimes clever, often boring, initiation rite for the legal profession, and it serves up reams of information about the law. However, the materials of law are the materials of human beings, and these experiences have to be…