Download or read book Learning from Each Other written by International Association of Law Schools. Conference and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enriching the law school curriculum in an increasingly interrelated world written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enriching the Law School Curriculum written by Susan R. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the research presented in Professor Susan Jones' 1997 article, Small Business and Community Economic Development: Transactional Lawyering for Social Change and Economic Justice, one of the first scholarly articles to discuss and analyze the benefits of transactional clinics in U.S. law schools, this article discusses the surge in transactional clinics nearly two decades after Professor Jones' early work in the field. Written at a time when only a handful of business law clinics existed, Jones' work provided a historical snapshot of the 1990s' age of welfare reform, examined how transactional clinics, like their litigation counterparts, reflect social issues and add value in promoting community economic development. Since then, transactional legal clinics have grown exponentially and today there are more than 150 transactional clinics in increasingly diverse doctrinal areas. Part I of the Article discusses the evolution of transactional clinical practice, definitions of transactional law, substantive areas of transactional clinical practice, regional distribution of these clinics and substantive legal developments in transactional law practice in the last two decades. Part II discusses skills training pedagogy and emerging scholarship in the field, along with frequently encountered ethical and practice issues such as competition with the private bar, group representation, pro bono publico services, unauthorized practice of law, multijurisdictional practice, and the proliferation of online document service providers. Part III explores the advent of new hybrid business structures such as L3Cs, benefit corporations, social purpose and flexible purpose corporations, while Part IV examines the future of clinical education, outcome design measures and assessments and program evaluation.
Download or read book Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Study Ways of Enriching and Improving the Second and Third Year Curriculum written by University of Wisconsin--Madison. Law School. Ad Hoc Committee to Study Ways of Enriching and Improving the Second and Third Year Curriculum and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Association of Law Schools Conference written by International Association of Law Schools. Conference and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reforming Legal Education written by David M. Moss and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s volatile law school environment, curriculum reform has emerged as a significant focus. It is commonly understood that law schools effectively teach certain analytical skills, but are less successful in other areas, and often scramble to adapt to evolving aims. This book demonstrates how law schools are successfully reforming their curriculum - and lays the framework to show how all schools of law can engage in a continuous reform model that proactively shapes our profession. It is expected that faculty and professional staff engaged in legal education will utilize this book as a primary resource to guide their respective reform efforts. Each contributed chapter presents a case study of a data-driven curriculum reform effort. The initial chapters set the conceptual context for the book, while the final chapter offers summative recommendations for considering legal education reform as derived from the earlier case study chapters. This book adds significantly to the literature in legal education, as we gain first hand insight into evidence based reform for the legal education community.
Download or read book Educating Lawyers written by William M. Sullivan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-03-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Challenge of Educating Lawyers "This volume, under the presidency of Lee Shulman, is intended primarily to foster appreciation for what legal education does at its best. We want to encourage more informed scholarship and imaginative dialogue about teaching and learning for the law at all organizational levels: in individual law schools, in the academic associations, in the profession itself. We also believe our findings will be of interest within the academy beyond the professional schools, as well as among that public concerned with higher education and the promotion of professional excellence." --From the Introduction "Educating Lawyers is no doubt the best work on the analysis and reform of legal education that I have ever read. There is a call for deep changes in the way law is taught, and I believe that it will be a landmark in the history of legal education." --Bryant G. Garth, dean and professor of law, Southwestern Law School and former director of the American Bar Foundation "Educating Lawyers succeeds admirably in describing the educational programs at virtually every American law school. The call for the integration of the three apprenticeships seems to me exactly what is needed to make legal education more 'professional,' to prepare law students better for the practice of law, and to address societal expectations of lawyers." --Stephen Wizner, dean of faculty, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Download or read book The Law Curriculum written by Emlin McClain and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Zero Sum Games written by David Dominguez and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural diversity in legal education is a worthy goal when it actively helps all students to reexamine their limited perceptions of justice through a new, negotiable matrix. The full promise of a law school's affirmative action efforts is realized when all students understand and experience for themselves the educational benefit of a multicultural community. Negotiable learning makes good on the law school recruiter's promise to all applicants that cultural diversity is not simply about being at the law school but can become a training medium for multicultural lawyering. It teaches all students how to work through - not run from - racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry. In so doing, negotiable learning answers the cry for multicultural justice with something better than substantive reform of the legal canon and the addition of more nontraditional law students, faculty, and courses. It builds a learning process throughout the law school curriculum which teaches all students how they, together, can infuse fresh blood into society's anemic response to cultural conflict. Law school in general and multicultural interaction in particular are too often experienced as zero-sum contests and zero-sum negotiation. When one member or one segment of the community is awarded a prize, it appears to come at another's expense. Whether the winnings are admission slots, top grades, job placements, or co-curricular activities, law students are keenly aware of the intense competition for scarce commodities. The harsh reality for the losers is that law school becomes the first academic setting where the reigning negotiation dynamics work against their self-esteem and confidence. But instead of questioning whether legal education ought to be a learning process driven by distributive bargaining and zero-sum outcomes, law students tend to direct their frustration toward the apparent culprits: each other. This article argues that cultural diversity, even in a zero-sum environment, can generate joint-gain instructional methods that enrich the law training of all students. I report on my five-year classroom experiment taking educational advantage of diversities among the law students at Brigham Young University. In Part I, I described the catalytic role of the law teacher in exploiting the educational value of diverse life backgrounds and perspectives. Part II turns to the expanded role of students in the negotiable learning process. The third and final phase of negotiable learning, discussed in Part III, impresses upon students that multicultural lawyering is a professional commitment to shared responsibility and shared risk. It is the shared responsibility to transform zero-sum games into integrative processes that value cultural differences. Equally important, it is the shared risk of increased cultural strife should the students, as eventual leaders in the community, fail to do so.
Download or read book Law and Leadership written by Paula Monopoli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership includes the ability to persuade others to embrace one’s ideas and to act upon them. Teaching law students the art of persuasion through advocacy is at the heart of legal education. But historically law schools have not included leadership studies in the curriculum. This book is one of the first to examine whether and how to integrate the theory and practice of leadership studies into legal education and the legal profession. Interdisciplinary in its scope, with contributions from legal educators and practitioners, the book defines leadership in the context of the legal profession and explores its challenges in legal academia, private practice, and government. It also investigates whether law students need to study leadership and, if they should, why it should be offered as part of the curriculum. Finally, it considers how leadership should be taught and how it should be integrated into classes. It evaluates new leadership courses and the adaptation of existing courses to reflect on how to effectively blend law and leadership in doctrinal, clinical, and experiential classrooms. The book includes a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and noted leadership scholar, James MacGregor Burns and a foundational essay by prominent leadership scholar and one of the founders of the International Leadership Association, Georgia Sorenson. It will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in leadership, education policy and legal ethics.
Download or read book Legal Education in the Global Context written by Christopher Gane and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the opportunities and challenges facing legal education in the era of globalization. It identifies the knowledge and skills that law students will require in order to prepare for the practice of tomorrow, and explores pedagogical shifts legal education needs to make inside and outside of the classroom. With contributions from leading experts on legal education from various jurisdictions across the globe, the work combines theoretical depth with practical insights. Seeking to understand the changing landscape of legal education in the era of globalization, the contributions find that law schools can, and must, adopt educational strategies that at least present students with different understandings of what studying and practicing law is meant to be about. They find that law schools need to offer their students choices, a vision of practice that is not driven entirely by the demands of the marketplace or the needs of major international law firms. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book makes a significant contribution to the impact of globalization on legal education, and how students and law schools need to adapt for the future. It will be of great interest to academics and students of comparative legal studies and legal education, as well as policy-makers and practitioners.
Download or read book Going Back to Basics written by J. Damian Ortiz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal education has undergone significant changes from the apprenticeship system of the eighteenth century to the more formalized legal education of today. While most of these changes have been beneficial, practical real world education and skills are missing from most students' legal education. Experiential legal education programs, which are available at virtually all law schools, in some form, is an excellent way to bridge the gap between the skills taught in the classroom environment and the skills required to be a successful attorney practitioner. For example clinical education provides students with real legal skills that are considered valuable by many employers. Even though experiential education programs are extremely beneficial to students, employers, and the community, the benefits provided by experiential education can be increased by making them mandatory and modifying the experiential programs. This paper explores the need for mandatory experiential programs and their impact on modern legal education. Specifically, this article explores the vital role that clinics and other practical skills programs play in legal education. Introduction: As the primary means for educating future lawyers, the quality of education offered by law schools is important to both law students and the community at large. Because of the important role of law schools in society, it is crucial that educators ensure that law students are receiving an education that will give them a solid foundation as practitioners. Studies and critiques of modern law schools reveal several striking similarities. These studies show that modern law schools offer an integrated curriculum and teach legal analysis in the classroom, but could benefit from an increased focus on practical skills, ethics, and communication skills. This leads to the conclusion that law schools need to provide programs that focus on training students for the actual practice of law. Clinical legal education fulfills this objective by giving students an opportunity to obtain experiential learning. Experiential learning encompasses all three domains of learning: cognitive, performance, and effectiveness. It ensures that the students' education encompasses the four stage sequence of optimal learning: theory, application, experience, and reflection. Thus, experiential learning allows students to learn and apply legal skills in a manner that is not available in the classroom environment. This article further explores the vital role that clinics play in legal education. The article begins with a history of clinical legal education and a summary of modern legal education, so we can examine where we have been and the current state of legal education. Then, the article explains the important role that clinical education plays in the bigger picture of modern legal education. Finally, the article more closely examines the nature of clinical education today, discusses several innovative apprenticeship programs, and offers suggestions as to how clinical education can be improved to ensure that students are receiving a legal education that will truly prepare them to enter the workforce as counselors and advocates. Conclusion: As we have seen, clinics play a crucial role in a legal education by offering students real-world experience and bridging the gap between theory and practice. Clinical legal education is essential because it helps ensure that students are prepared for the practice of law, and teaches them to act ethically, competently, and responsibly. Through making clinical, apprenticeship, and externship programs mandatory for all students, and integrating clinical methodology and goals into the core curriculum, legal educators will ensure that their graduates are better prepared for the real world of lawyering upon graduation.
Download or read book Integrating Practical Skills Into the Law School Curriculum written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report reviews curriculum reform at U.S. law schools, with a specific focus on integrating practical skills and professionalism into the curriculum. It also provides an overview of the historical and theoretical context of law school curriculum reform.
Download or read book Enriching Curriculum for All Students written by Joseph S. Renzulli and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The information in the book is extremely relevant. With the current demands for educational improvement, leaders in the field are searching for new, innovative means of helping students feel connected to their schools." —Tricia Peña, Principal Cienega High School, Vail, AZ "This book does a good job of explaining the purpose, design, and use of the enrichments and their relationship to the general curriculum." —Laurie Peterman, Instructional Facilitator Anoka-Hennpin ISD #11, Lino Lakes, MN Create an instructional program that can transform every student′s learning experience! How can educators spark an enthusiasm for learning in young people? What can classroom teachers do to promote creativity and innovative thinking? In Enriching Curriculum for All Students, Second Edition, the authors present the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM), a groundbreaking instructional program that reaches all students through hands-on problem solving, high-interest activities, and cooperative learning. The revised edition offers updated research and additional guidelines for implementing lessons to support differentiated and enriching learning opportunities for all learners. Demonstrating how teachers can shift from instructor to coach or mentor, and how students′ minds, spirits, and values can be developed within an invigorating atmosphere, the authors focus on: Developing the talent potential of all students Improving academic performance through meaningful, enjoyable learning Fostering a reflective, growth-oriented staff Honoring ethnic, gender, and cultural diversity Involving students, parents, teachers, and administrators in decision making This vital resource combines inspiration with practical methods and highlights the importance of a versatile and imaginative curriculum that gives all students the opportunity to reach their highest potential.
Download or read book The Canon of American Legal Thought written by David Kennedy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology presents, for the first time, full texts of the twenty most important works of American legal thought since 1890. Drawing on a course the editors teach at Harvard Law School, the book traces the rise and evolution of a distinctly American form of legal reasoning. These are the articles that have made these authors--from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., to Ronald Coase, from Ronald Dworkin to Catherine MacKinnon--among the most recognized names in American legal history. These authors proposed answers to the classic question: "What does it mean to think like a lawyer--an American lawyer?" Their answers differed, but taken together they form a powerful brief for the existence of a distinct and powerful style of reasoning--and of rulership. The legal mind is as often critical as constructive, however, and these texts form a canon of critical thinking, a toolbox for resisting and unravelling the arguments of the best legal minds. Each article is preceded by a short introduction highlighting the article's main ideas and situating it in the context of its author's broader intellectual projects, the scholarly debates of his or her time, and the reception the article received. Law students and their teachers will benefit from seeing these classic writings, in full, in the context of their original development. For lawyers, the collection will take them back to their best days in law school. All readers will be struck by the richness, the subtlety, and the sophistication with which so many of what have become the clichés of everyday legal argument were originally formulated.
Download or read book Comparative Constitutional Law written by Tom Ginsburg and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume of specially commissioned, original contributions by top international scholars organizes the issues and controversies of the rich and rapidly maturing field of comparative constitutional law. Divided into sections on constitutional design and redesign, identity, structure, individual rights and state duties, courts and constitutional interpretation, this comprehensive volume covers over 100 countries as well as a range of approaches to the boundaries of constitutional law. While some chapters reference the text of legal instruments expressly labeled constitutional, others focus on the idea of entrenchment or take a more functional approach. Challenging the current boundaries of the field, the contributors offer diverse perspectives - cultural, historical and institutional - as well as suggestions for future research. A unique and enlightening volume, Comparative Constitutional Law is an essential resource for students and scholars of the subject.
Download or read book Clinical Legal Education in the Law School Curriculum written by Council on Legal Education for Professional Responsibility and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
