The Great Transition in Legal Education

In the 1960s, the University of Manitoba Law School moved from being an downtown, practitioner-taught law school to the suburban campus of a large university. This great transition was modelled after many in Canada. The debate has arisen as to whether law schools have become excessively immersed in the bureaucracy and research orientation of universities, and should embark upon a new transition, in which academic and practical perspectives are better integrated. Bryan Schwartz has been a pi...