Law Students Need Epistemic Experience

February 6, 2012

There’s a difference between having a law degree and being ready to provide services. A recent news article suggests that law students graduate knowing a lot of theory, but lack a lawyer's epistemic frame. That is, they are not taught to use their skills, knowledge, and culture to see the world as a lawyer does. David Williamson Shaffer sees a solution: law schools should teach an epistemic frame. Epistemic games, like those being developed at UW-Madison, help players learn the ways of thinking–the epistemologies–of professions. More information is available here.