For me, the threat of educational Taylorism is seen today in reforms like the No Child Left Behind Act, where uniform and “rigorous” standardized assessment crowds out everything else that should take place in schools. There are certainly ways of structuring law schools that would resemble the worst of that trend.

So I wonder, then, how much the vision you’re suggesting for an ideal law school corresponds with the progressive education movement of John Dewey and others?
http://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/articles/proged.html

Personally, I would like to see more law schools that resonate with those principles. As a former high school teacher, I’m a big fan of Ted Sizer’s work. I had honestly never thought much about applying it to the law school setting.
http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/about/org/execboard/ted_page.html