The three part title of this session ”Bhopal, the Good Lawyer, and the American Law School” invites us to suppose that the natural and proper connection between the American law school and the disaster at Bhopal is for the former to produce the good lawyer who will respond appropriately to the Bhopals of the world. But the relation of American law schools to Bhopal is not confined lo the involvement of their alumni. The law schools' links to Bhopal are more complicated, for American law schools are more than places for training American lawyers. They are centers of learning that influence what knowledge is generated and how that knowledge is systematically arranged, stored, taught, and disseminated. By deploying their own resources and by directing the attention of profession and public, law schools influence what counts as worthwhile knowledge and what problems are considered worth solving.
