ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role of theory in legal education. It builds on an exchange between the author and Neil MacCormick and upon the discussion of the place of theory in legal education in William Twining's symposium. Neil MacCor-mick has been concerned to defend this distinctive place of jurisprudence in the law curriculum not in the name of tradition but as an essentially liberal and broadening ingredient against the narrowly pragmatic and professionalist pressures upon the law curriculum. MacCormick's restatement of the case for foundationalism involves either a change or an addition to his original position. Finally the chapter suggests a framework within which a pluralist approach to the place of theory in legal education can be attained and organised without seeking to obscure or evade the conflicting and incommensurate range of ideas which it is the job of the law curriculum to introduce to law students.
