Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2009
Abstract
This article examines the value of jurisprudence in legal education. It argues that jurisprudence should be mandated at an early stage of the students' law curriculum as the legal ideals that may be imparted through a jurisprudence course cannot be adequately taught in a professional ethics course or through teaching jurisprudential perspectives in doctrinal subjects. Law schools have a special responsibility to get students thinking about what law is, what makes law legitimate, and how law is related to justice, morality, politics and rationality. A mandatory jurisprudence course should be intentionally structured along these themes.
Discipline
Jurisprudence | Legal Education
Research Areas
Legal Theory, Ethics and Legal Education
Publication
Law Teacher
Volume
43
Issue
1
First Page
14
Last Page
36
ISSN
0306-9400
Identifier
10.1080/03069400802703128
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Citation
TAN, Seow Hon.
Teaching Legal Ideals through Jurisprudence. (2009). Law Teacher. 43, (1), 14-36.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/835
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400802703128