FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History
Abstract
The 1992 Report of the Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap (the Task Force ), Legal Education Professional Development - An Educational Continuum, popularly known as the MacCrate Report (the Report ), was the most ambitious effort to reform legal education in the past generation. Some commentators have described the Report as the greatest proposed paradigm shift in legal education since Langdell envisioned legal education as the pursuit of legal science through the case method in the late 19th century.” Although the Report sought to promote education in both lawyering skills and values, its major influence has been in the area of lawyering skills. The Report has contributed little to promoting professional values.5 This result is not surprising. The Report\u27s treatment of values suffers from two basic flaws. First, the text makes values a low priority and then does not explain them coherently. Second, the Task Force fails to consider that the dominant values of the Bar and the Academy oppose those of the Report
