ABSTRACT
In a recent Sunday New York Times Magazine piece, Bill Keller described some management training he received at the Wharton School. This training covered all of the usual things that business schools teach, but it also included a three-hour poetry session. Law school presupposes that matriculating students like to read or at least that they have the sitzfleisch to endure reading hundreds of densely packed pages a day. Law professors teach first years how to parse a case, how to sift the holding from any dicta and how to reconcile seemingly contradictory results in multiple cases. At the end of that first year, every law student who has paid attention in class can read a case. The 'Beyond Text in Legal Education' conference certainly opened my eyes to these types of possibilities and the possibilities of developing the imagination through the arts.
