Sentences with phrase «purely academic law»

We could continue to offer purely academic law degrees, acknowledging their worth in the imparting of a certain kind of learning, but insist that anyone who actually wants to practise law undergo an apprenticeship, getting the bulk of his or her education from an experienced professional — or ideally, professionals, moving around during the apprenticeship period through a minimum of three practice areas, much like a medical resident would.

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Initially, it was going to be purely an academic piece on leading lawyers from different specialist areas on how they think the law will change.

The question may no longer be purely academic, as Orin Kerr points out in his post, The First Blog Post to Become a Law Review Article?

While it is easy for the law school administrations and academics to preach about their obligation to open up the profession and admit more students so as to avoid a monopoly in the profession the real reason for the decision to increase enrollment, at the University of Ottawa in particular, but I would suggest at each of the law schools in the province, has been a purely selfish financial one on behalf of the law schools and their faculty members.