…in the Journal of Legal Education, but excerpted here.  In 23 years in law teaching, I've never heard a law professor express "disdain" for legal practice, as Judge Edwards frequently asserts some law professors do.   Of course, I never taught, unlike Judge Edwards, at Harvard or Michigan (and the two schools where I've spent most of my career, Texas and Chicago, are certainly not schools where one would hear such sentiments), but I do suspect this is an urban legend.  Even in my year teaching at Yale, I never heard anyone express such disdain.