Law in Context

William Twining was educated at Oxford and Chicago. He has held chairs at Belfast, Warwick, and London. He has been President of the Society of Public Teachers of Law, Chairman of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, and a consultant and member of numerous committees on legal education. He is currently Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Camel in the Zoo ; 3. Reflections on Law in Context ; 4. Pericles and the Plumber ; 5. 1836 and All That ; 6. Taking Facts Seriously ; 7. Evidence and Legal Theory ; 8. Theory in the Law Curriculum ; 9. Legal Skills and Legal Education ; 10. Karl Llewellyn and the Modern Skills Movement ; 11. Reading Law ; 12. The Reading Law Cookbook ; 13. Preparing Lawyers for the Twenty-first Century ; 14. What are Law Schools For? ; 15. Pericles Regained? ; 16. A Nobel Prize for Law?

I found this book... quite inspirational ... Professor Twining has covered a large canvas in this collection of essays. He has done so in both a clear and engaging manner ... written with a refreshing breadth of vision ... this is a book which sums up in an engagingly personal way most of the important developments in legal education in the past forty years...