A professor at Georgetown University Law Center has concluded that law schools cannot make legal education more practical and relevant if they continue to hire professors with little real-world experience who are focused on esoteric scholarship.
Adjunct professor Brent Evan Newton advances his theory in “Preaching What They Don’t Practice: Why Law Faculties’ Preoccupation with Impractical Scholarship and Devaluation of Practical Competencies Obstruct Reform in the Legal Academy.” The article, awaiting publication by South Carolina Law Review, has generated discussion online among legal educators about the benefits and drawbacks of a faculty focused on theory rather than skills.
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