Should lawyers be pragmatists? Few words on legal education from the perspective of R. Rorty’s noepragmatism Cover Image

Czy prawnicy powinni być pragmatystami? Kilka słów o edukacji prawniczej z perspektywy neopragmatyzmu R. Rorty’ego
Should lawyers be pragmatists? Few words on legal education from the perspective of R. Rorty’s noepragmatism

Author(s): Filip Rakoczy
Subject(s): Pragmatism, Higher Education , State/Government and Education
Published by: Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
Keywords: legal education; pragmatism; Richard Rorty;

Summary/Abstract: In my paper I would like to analyze the topic o academic legal education, using for that purpose tool granted by Rochard Rorty’s neopragmatism and Artur Kozak’s juriscentrism. In this article I consider the possibility of describing higher education and legal culture using both of those concepts, and to form some proposals for future shaping of this proces. In my text I aim to prove, tha contemporary legal education is basem mostly on the mechanisms of socialisation and professional training, which base rather on transfer of rules of legal reasoning and discussion within legal community, than on transfer of actual skills. Therefore I consider to which extent this process should be suplemented by methods which individualise students, and which allow the autocreation, which is, according to Rorty, should be the mian task of higher education. In the further parts of my paper I consuder, how those mechanisms will impact shaping of future lawyers, and by that, the legal community itself, and what benefits could we achieve this way.

  • Issue Year: 8/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 118-135
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish