Getting Past Legal Analysis or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Teaching Rape
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Authors
Oberman, Michelle
Issue Date
2012
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45
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Long after the rape chapter was over, when we had moved on to inchoate crimes and cases involving "call girls" and conniving defendants who took messages for them in an era before voicemail-protagonists with whom my students, it seemed safe to wager, were unacquainted-the thoughtful young man from the third row stopped in to ask, "What was the take away from the classes on rape?" |I know I answered using too many words. It is what I do when I feel slightly defensive. Now that I have had some time to think about it, I offer him, and all of you, this answer. My hope is that, in explaining my approach to teaching rape, I will also address the deeper themes afoot in contemporary critiques of legal education: whether and how law schools are training students for the practice of law, and what practical use, if any, is served by scholarship among legal academics. At the very least, I will tell you a story about how I stopped worrying and learned to love teaching rape...
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45 Creighton L. Rev. 799 (2011-2012)
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Creighton University School of Law