Legal education has lost its way

Lawyers today lack creativity and are trained to follow rules, not question them, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Millions of Americans can't afford basic legal representation.

He says the nation also has a broader need for lawyers trained to rethink outdated laws and design systems that support human flourishing.

The accumulation of law suffocates the pioneers, the entrepreneurs, and civil society leaders who built America .

Llewellyn 's peers dismissed his ideas, showing "truly neither law students nor law professors, as masses, have begun to appreciate either their job, or what can be done with that job" He observed a tendency among the legal profession to "cling inertly and incuriously" to an "outmoded tradition" The idea that one type of lawyer can meet all legal needs is outdated now as it was in 1935 .