A survey of U.S. law schools shows few institutions offer courses specifically on Latin American legal systems, most teachers of such courses focus on the role of legal institutions in development rather than acquaint students with civil law systems, and teaching materials should be revised and supplemented. (MSE)

From a paper prepared for the 1969 annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, stressing importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in studying processes of social and legal change. (IR)

The structure of the law school curriculum is a product of the structure of the law school faculty, which may explain why the law school curriculum neither has changed very much over the years, despite repeated calls for reform, nor will change much in the future. (MSE)

State constitutional law is an emerging area for legal education, partly because of state supreme court decisions relying on state rather than federal constitutional law. Studying state constitutional law highlights similarities and diversity of legal and governmental systems. Interest in establishment of curricula and materials in state law is…