Abstract
The theme of the 1998 Conference of the Clinical Section of the Association of American Law Schools, held in Portland, Oregon, was "values"- what values law professors hold, how they might differ from those of their students, whether it is appropriate to "teach" about values, whether it is even possible not to teach about them, how to discuss values in a non-threatening fashion, whether some values might simply be wrong, and so forth. Important questions, generating productive conversation and debate, to the deep satisfaction, from all signs, of the participants, who are not known to be uncritical of such conferences and their agendas. The agenda for the conference asked the assembled clinical law professors to wrestle with questions about incorporating values in teaching, including the questions I have just described, and to develop teaching ideas that might serve to engage and educate students on these matters. Each working group at the conference was asked to develop comments, aphorisms, questions, and themes, reflecting the collective effort of the group to make sense of values in the work of clinical law faculty. At the close of the conference the results of those efforts were compiled and distributed to the participants. I reproduce a sampling of the generated ideas in the margin. Their contents serve as an important focus of my ideas.
Publication Title
Clinical Law Review
Volume
5
Issue
1
First Page
325
Recommended Citation
Paul R. Tremblay,
Coherence and Incoherence in Values-Talk,
5
Clinical L. Rev
325
(1998).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/clr/vol5/iss1/10