Anarchy and Elegance

In Anarchy and Elegance Chris Goodrich deconstructs the inner workings of legal education at the nation’s most prestigious law school. A former legal reporter, Goodrich – a Yale graduate – attended the law school on a year-long fellowship for journalists, and soon found himself in a mare’s nest of conflicting ideas, emotions, and social visions. His class-by-class account, which showed exactly how law students learn to “think like lawyers,” highlights the tension between the often-elegant a...