Book notice: The Language of Law School

[Harold F. Schiffman]

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The Language of Law School: Learning to "think like a lawyer"
2007 OxfordUniversity Press
                http://www.oup.com/us

Author: Elizabeth Mertz

Anthropologist and law professor Elizabeth Mertz takes us inside the
first-year law classroom, unpacking the mysterious process by which law
students learn to "think like lawyers." This process, which forces
students to think and talk in radically new and different ways about
conflicts, is directed by professors in the course of their lectures and
examinations, and conducted via spoken and written language. Using
linguistic analysis, this book tracks the relentless shift away from
social and moral grounding that law students must undergo to become
lawyers. Mertz bases her study on tape recordings from first year
Contracts courses in eight different law schools.

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