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In: U.S. Student Law News, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1986
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There may or there may not be a crisis in the ethics of lawyers. Much of what the public perceives to be unethical lawyer behavior is in fact ethical. Lawyers represent underdogs and vindicate the Bill of Rights (which some in the press and public call procedural technicalities). However, whatever may be the situation, there is room for improvement. The best method of improvement is not in more rigorous bar-testing, nor is it in more discipline. Rather, the best method is in a better legal education. In that way the problem is dealt with, before it becomes a problem. In this column I offer several suggestions to improve legal education. Much of the traditional offerings in law school are illogical. The most basic legal inquiries are: what is law and what should law be? By the time the law student is academically exposed to this investigation, he or she has made up his/her mind