Becoming a Lawyer: A Humanistic Perspective on Legal Education and Professionalism

by Elizabeth Dvorkin

Authors explore their concerns about the professionalization process and the issues raised in considering the relevance of humanistic education to law. Responds to the difficulty of understanding and expressing a humanistic perspective on legal education in a way that does it justice and connects with the readers’ own experiences. Each chapter is followed by short essays describing how the issues raised in that particular passage affected the authors as persons involved in the law school community.

211 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1981