Is Jurisprudence essential in legal education?

Jurisprudence is a subject that is vastly different to the so-called traditional topics that have by and large formed the basis of legal education, such as tort law or contract law. These topics have a recognised content and consist mostly of statute and case law judgments. Jurisprudence on the other hand is a melee of intermingling ideas and the boundaries traditionally placed around law subjects are nowhere to be seen. Indeed the notion of what …

…education. I would agree that jurisprudence should form an essential part of legal education because it is necessary to have full understanding of what is law. There is something lacking if law is represented as a quiescent body of knowledge removed from all social, political and economic influences. It has an underlying vitality and one of the main purposes of a meritorious legal education must be to captivate and convey a sense of that vitality.