All institutions have normalizing tendencies, and law school is no different. Volume Three of Stanford Agora turns its examining eye toward the law school itself . While certainly not a comprehensive examination of all aspects of the law school experience, this issue focuses on various compelling and perhaps even polemical issues that law schools are facing, from reassessing legal curricula to incorporating racial diversity. It is our sincerest hope that the content of this volume will challenge the reader's conception of law school and lead them to question aspects of the experience they might have taken for granted.

How lawyers think can be traced quite directly to how they are taught, therefore, our featured articles addresses legal pedagogy. In Ten Thousand Cases Maybe More: An Essay on Legal Centralism Professor Pierre Schlag of the University of Colorado Law School examines the homogenizing tendencies of legal education. Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild, Heidi Boghosian criticizes the manner in which the legal training discourages political activism in the Amorality of Legal Andragogy. Finally, Jonathan Yovel discusses the role of language in legal education with Rights and Rites: Initiation, Language and Performance in Law and Legal Education.

In addition to the featured articles, Agora has incorporated less traditional texts into this issue. An Audio Lecture On Audio Lectures by Paul Wangerin of John Marshall Law School discusses the manner in which he has incorporated technology into his curriculum. In a Digital Interview with Deborah Rhode, Agora Editor Ethan Roberts sat down with the Stanford Law Professor to discuss a wide variety of issues from the duration of legal education to the education training of professors. In Everyman's Law School, Agora Editor Susan Germer compares and contrasts the mini-genre of law school novels form nonfiction law school texts, from Paper Chase to Legally Blonde and serve sa an introduction into the subjective and profound effect that law school has on the student body. Finally, A Look at the Numbers: Gender and Racial Diversity in Law Schools provides animated charts that illustrate the dramatic change in the racial and gender composition of law school over the time.

We would like to thank all those who made this volume of Stanford Agora possible. Special thanks to Dean Kathleen Sullivan, the Stanford Law School Administration, Librarians and Staff, especially Joe Neto, Creative Service Specialist.

Sincerely,

Martha Rodriguez Lopez SLS '02
Alexis Soterakis SLS '03
Editors-in-Chief

Agora Staff

Editors-in-Chief

Martha Rodriguez Lopez SLS '02
Alexis Soterakis SLS '03

Submission Editor

Curtis Renoe SLS '03

Editors

Ethan Roberts SLS '03
Catherine Crump '4
Susan Germer '04

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