Document Type
Article
Disciplines
International Law
Abstract
Legal theory, often associated although not always coincident with the subject entitled jurisprudence,1 is a topic that is generally abhorred by the average student in the Anglo-American common law world, its pursuit lying, in the main, within the province of law school professors. I do not intend to controvert this rather alarming proposition, at least insofar as the Singapore context is concerned. Accepting the reality of it, however, does not entail consigning legal theory to the rarefied atmosphere of myth and conjecture; nor does it condemn us to attempting nothing to change it. Indeed, in this essay, I argue why legal theory is important and thus ought to be an integral part of the law school curriculum, whether in the form of a specific subject (such as jurisprudence) and/or as a more systematic component in all (or at least the majority) of the specific subjects taught
Recommended Citation
Phang, Andrew B.L., "Legal Theory in the Law School Curriculum - Myth, Reality, and the Singapore Context" (1991). Connecticut Journal of International Law. 158.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cjil/158
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