Legal education and comparative law: an epistemological agenda

Geoffrey Samuel

Chapter 5 in A Research Agenda for Comparative Law, 2024, pp 89-108 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Legal education and comparative law are both preoccupied with what it is to have legal knowledge. Moreover both domains demand knowledge that stretches beyond the frontier of the discipline of law. In the case of legal education, there is - or ought to be at least - an emphasis on ‘education’ itself as much as on the ‘legal’. Comparative law, for its part, demands not only responses to the ‘what amounts to law’ question but also to the other question of ‘what amounts to comparison’. To bring these two domains - comparative law and legal education - together could be fruitful in terms of legal epistemology and indeed epistemology in general, even if what is revealed about law schools is not particularly encouraging. Legal education seems to be about learning rules to be applied to litigation-type problems, this application process involving the categorisation of facts and of rules into a ‘scientific’ and systematised whole.

Keywords: Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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