The Language of Law School: Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer." By Elizabeth Mertz. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+308. $35.00 paper.

Mertz's The Language of Law School uses "close analysis of classroom language to examine the limits that legal epistemology may place on law's democratic aspirations" (p. 3). Mertz points to these limits in two ways: she shows how contract law and education promote "a common vision" of human conflicts that obscures particular aspects of social experience, and she explores the differences that gender and race make in the teaching and learning of law.

Mertz's painstaking research is a model empirical and sociolegal study of language. ...

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