Abstract
This article describes an interdisciplinary project involving law students, law professors, graduate students in anthropology, and an anthropology professor. The Professional Discourse Project was an educational experiment, the defining feature of which was the use of a law school clinic as a laboratory in which law and anthropology students could explore what constitutes effective legal interviewing and could apply language theory to lawyering problems. In this interdisciplinary learning laboratory, anthropology students videotaped and transcribed lawyer-client interviews conducted by first year law students. The Project participants analyzed the data through an interdisciplinary lens. By crossing disciplinary boundaries, the Professional Discourse Project sought to immerse students from the two disciplines in both theory and practice.
Publication Title
Clinical Law Review
Volume
1
Issue
2
First Page
245
Recommended Citation
Gay Gellhorn, Lynne Robins & Pat Roth,
Law and Language: An Interdisciplinary Study of Client Interviews,
1
Clinical L. Rev
245
(1994).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/clr/vol1/iss2/3