That’s the conclusion Georgetown University Law Center adjunct professor Brent Evan Newton advances in “Preaching What They Don’t Practice: Why Law Faculties’ Preoccupation with Impractical Scholarship and Devaluation of Practical Competencies Obstruct Reform in the Legal Academy.”

The article, awaiting publication by South Carolina Law Review, has generated discussion online among legal educators about the benefits and drawbacks of a faculty focused on theory rather than skills.