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190 Rev. Acad. Puert. De Jur. Y Leg. 1:1 177, 1989Erasmian Europe. Yet no substitute has been found for the classics.La solución a este serio problema de la abogacía quizás estriba comobien dice Hyland en enraizamos en la literatura. El profesor J. AllenSmith escribiendo en 1977 su importante estudio, "The Coming Renaissancein Law and Literature", 33 entiende que el problema estriba en elabandono de las humanidades. Veamos sus palabras: "Fundamentally,our problem arises from our failure to take seriously and to ground ourselvessecurely on the humanistic tradition, of which literature is a chiefexpression and from which the profession should draw nourishment anddirection." Más necesario en estos tiempos pues como afirma RichardWeisberg, "that individual lawyers remain as literate as they were inWigmore's day; but legal institutions, including surprisingly the legalacademy, have all but broken off from their humanistic roots. Wigmoreprobably would not have been able to predict this eventuality; neitherwould he have wished to foresee Watergate's Mitchell, Ehrlichman andDean, nor to guess that law schools would produce "value-free" graduatessuch Nixon and Agnew." 3433 J. Allen Smith, "The Comming renaissance in Law and Literature", Journalof Legal Education, Volume 30, (1979-1980) p. 13 publicado originalmente en:The Maryland Law Forum, Volume 7, No. 2, (June 1977). La cita es a la página14.34 Richard H. Weisberg, ―Wigmores ‗Legal novels‗revisited: new resourcesfor the expansive lawyer,‖, Northwestern University Law Review, Volume 71(1976), p. 17.