Published two times per year by the University of New Mexico School of Law

摘要: AIMS AND METHODSLawyers who function in their profession, whether as private practitioners or public servants, are an integral part of the system by which a democratic society governs itself. If they are to properly discharge the responsibilities of this role, their education for the profession must be broad and intensive. In its breadth, that education must encompass a full understanding of and belief in the democratic respect for individual personality and the democratic processes designed to allow individuals to develop and participate in a free, self-governing society. In its intensification it must impart a high degree of competence in the craftsmanship of the law-in those skills and insights essential to an adequate performance of the lawyer's function as advocate, judge, legislator, teacher, administrator, or civic leader. Such education neither begins nor ends in the law school, and the School of Law is continually …