Arguing that good legal reasoning remains the best device by which we can ensure that
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transition to be easy. I had read of" the growing disjunction between legal education and the …

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solemn obligation is to examine the way the law works, both in theory and practice, and to …

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was founded on the idea that it is every lawyer's professional responsibility to provide legal …

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he has done. Lawyers, by contrast, typically assist injurers in the reverse-denial. Legal …

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