Ideology of Legal Reasoning in the Classroom, The

The other papers in this symposium stress the importance of expanding our inquiry into cases such as O'Brien v. Cunard Steamship Co.' In this essay I discuss how the process of legal reasoning, as it ordinarily is conducted in first-year classes, introduces its own element of ideological distortion. My proposition is that, because of that ideological distortion, the moves suggested by the other symposiasts are important but limited.