A Community of Procedure Scholars: Teaching Procedure and the Legal Academy

Authors

Elizabeth G. Thornburg, Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of LawFollow
Erik S. Knutsen, Queen's University Faculty of LawFollow
Carla Crifo, Leicester Law SchoolFollow
Camille Cameron, Dalhousie University - Schulich School of LawFollow

Abstract

This article asks whether the way in which procedure is taught has an impact on the extent and accomplishments of a scholarly community of proceduralists. Not surprisingly, we find a strong correlation between the placement of procedure as a required course in an academic context and the resulting body of scholars and scholarship. Those countries in which more civil procedure is taught as part of a university degree — and in which procedure is recognized as a legitimate academic subject — have larger scholarly communities, a larger and broader corpus of works analyzing procedural issues, and a richer web of institutional support systems that inspire, fund, and shape the study of public justice.

Publication Title

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Document Type

Article

Keywords

civil procedure, legal education, teaching, scholarship, comparative law

Recommended Citation

Beth Thornburg, et al., A Community of Procedure Scholars: Teaching Procedure and the Legal Academy, 51 Osgoode Hall L. J. 93 (2013).