Not the Golden Gate: Legal Writing Bridges the 'Divide' between Doctrine and Skill
In this environment of legal education reform, legal writing courses are already well-positioned. Accustomed to staying innovative and anticipating changing technological and economic realities of law practice, legal writing classes already bridge that so-called divide between doctrine and skill. It is "so-called," because the divide is in many respects artificial, by focusing on a traditional, increasingly obsolete model in which experiential educational learning is not included in the classroom. And how do legal writing courses bridge it? By merging the substantive and practical into an indistinguishable whole, in interactive, multi-faceted classrooms.