Etienne Toussaint, The Miseducation of Public Citizens, 29 Geo. J. Pov. L. & Pol’y 287 (2022), available at SSRN.

Scott Cummings

In The Miseducation of Public Citizens, Professor Etienne Toussaint argues that, although the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct call for lawyers to be “public citizens” with a special responsibility to promote justice and protect the rule of law, the way that law is typically taught undermines these public goals. Specifically, he argues that the formalistic approach to teaching legal […]