Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Fordham Law Review
Abstract
In this Article, I examine the relationship between ideas and institutional excellence in legal education. Although I differ with him in regard to some details, Bob Kaczorowski has discussed the importance of ideas in the history of Fordham Law School, and so I will use his excellent book6 to articulate a paradigm that explains how ideas relate to institutional development. I will then use the paradigm to examine developments at Harvard Law School parallel to those that occurred earlier at Fordham. I agree with John Sexton that a good law school must be concerned with the “ought” of the law as well as the “is.” But my paradigm goes beyond that and shows that a leading or outstanding law school must view the “ought” in the context of political and societal debates ongoing in the nation at the time.
First Page
939
Volume
87
Publication Date
2018
Recommended Citation
Wiiliam E. Nelson,
The Importance of Scholarship to Law School Excellence,
87
Fordham Law Review
939
(2018).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/864
