The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education

The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education
Author: Richard J. Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108663036

Globally, the methodologies of legal education have not changed in any fundamental way, some methods dating back hundreds of years. Law schools have relied, for too long, on passive learning methods such as lectures or cases. Clinical legal education provides an alternative that is more than just another pedagogical method. It provides a way for students to experience their emerging professional selves, while providing services or projects with poor and underrepresented clients. This book documents both the historical origins of clinical experiments in the earliest days of US university legal education, and the now-global reach of clinical pedagogy as a proven tool for effective training of legal professionals.

Experimental Legal Education in a Globalized World

Experimental Legal Education in a Globalized World
Author: Mutaz Qafisheh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2016-06-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 144389544X

Legal education is currently undergoing a paradigm shift. Traditional law instruction, lecturing and memorizing have become a fading fashion, with legal clinics increasingly cropping up. These allow law students to practice while studying and to contribute to social justice as part of the educational process. Students no longer accept one-way interaction from their professors, and demand interaction with their peers in various corners of the globe. The Middle East is no exception here. Legal clinics can be found in most countries of the region, though there is scant literature on legal education in the area, particularly with regards to clinical legal education. This book fills this gap, and offers comparative cases that will benefit legal educators and justice practitioners in the Middle East and beyond. The region needs reform in all dimensions, including the political, economic, social, religious, legal, and educational. Legal education lies at the heart of securing such long awaited reforms. The book examines legal education within selected locations in the region, underscoring successful pedagogical models from various parts of the world. This peer-reviewed book focuses on practical legal education, where learning is student-centered, particularly clinical legal education, field work, street law, pro bono service, legal advice, simulations, placements/internships, moot courts and mock trials, problem-based learning, case analysis, group work, role-play, and brainstorming. The book brings together 28 chapters written by leading legal scholars from across the globe, all concerned with the advancement of legal education, with making it more interactive, and contributing to bridging the gap between powerful and powerless communities.

Thinking About Clinical Legal Education

Thinking About Clinical Legal Education
Author: Omar Madhloom
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2021-11-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000452972

Thinking About Clinical Legal Education provides a range of philosophical and theoretical frameworks that can serve to enrich the teaching and practice of Clinical Legal Education (CLE). CLE has become an increasingly common feature of the curriculum in law schools across the globe. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to the theoretical and philosophical dimensions of this approach. This edited collection seeks to address this gap by bringing together contributions from the clinical community, to analyse their CLE practice using the framework of a clearly articulated philosophical or theoretical approach. Contributions include insights from a range of jurisdictions including: Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Ethiopia, Israel, Spain, UK and the US. This book will be of interest to CLE academics and clinic supervisors, practitioners, and students.

The Globalization of Legal Education

The Globalization of Legal Education
Author: Bryant Garth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2022
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0197632319

"Legal academics and practitioners in recent decades increasingly emphasize the so-called "globalization" of legal education. The diffusion of the Juris Doctor (JD) degree to Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea, as well as the advent of a very similar Juris Master (JM) degree in China and a shift in the late 1980s and beyond to a new, US-influenced format in India, exemplify shifts toward US legal education practices (Flood 2014). The global and Americanizing trend is evident on the web sites of law schools around the globe, with many law schools competing to be the most "global" in terms of their faculty, curricula, teaching methods, and students. Less pronounced but related to the literature on legal globalization is that on "transnationalization" and transnational processes, which is a strong component of the move toward globalization in legal education. As this book shows, if we look to see what is celebrated as part of globalized law schools and faculties, we see increased cross-border flows of professors and students, teaching of transnational legal subjects, development of particular forms of teaching practice such as legal clinics, explicit focus on transnational rankings, and transnationalized scholarly communities sharing teaching and research methods and approaches across domains of law"--

The Global Clinical Movement

The Global Clinical Movement
Author: Frank S. Bloch
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2011
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780199869305

Clinical legal education is playing an increasingly important role in educating lawyers worldwide. Here, the contributors describe the central concepts, goals, and methods of clinical legal education from a global perspective, with a particular emphasis on its social justice mission.

Epistemic Communities at the Boundaries of Law

Epistemic Communities at the Boundaries of Law
Author: Cecilia Blengino
Publisher: Ledizioni
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 8855260049

“As richly described in the various chapters of this book, we see that clinics can act as a window to the functioning of law and the legal system. Clinics allow students and faculty to see how laws and the legal system are functioning for groups of people who otherwise likely would not be a part of the common experience of professors and their students: poor people generally, migrants and refugees, women and children exploited by trafficking, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, prisoners, and so on. Legal systems the world over tend to give less care and attention to the problems of the poor and other disempowered groups, and such people usually lack access to well-educated legal advocates to help them fight to make the legal system work for them. Through clinic cases, students and faculty see the day-today lives of people marginalized by the society, see how the law affects and influences their lives, and see how it serves or fails to serve them. For law professors involved in clinical education, such as the authors of this book, heightened awareness of the law’s operation for poor people adds another important perspective to the subjects of their research and work as commentators on the law. Students can also be inspired to select topics for research papers, master or PhD theses by exposure to problems in the law and legal system as it functions for their clients.” (Dall’introduzione)

Why Not an International Clinical Legal Exchange Program? It Is Worth the Shlep

Why Not an International Clinical Legal Exchange Program? It Is Worth the Shlep
Author: William Berman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

Clinical programs are a critical component of legal education worldwide. This article proposes a model of clinical legal exchange program that shifts the paradigm from one that presumes the U.S. clinician in the role of the consultant, to one in which the presumption is that clinicians from different countries have equivalent potential to positively influence each other's programs. This model is based upon an exchange program between Suffolk University Law School, and the University of Haifa, Israel (the Suffolk-Haifa Clinical Legal Exchange Program - “SHCLEP”). This experience suggests that international cooperation in clinical education should be seen through the lens of comparative law theory, as an endeavor in which participants in exchange programs seek to advance clinical pedagogy and practice on a global level. Sending clinical students abroad as a precursor to their clinical experience at home provides the student with an important, culturally disorienting experience that, ideally, will lead the student to think critically about his or her own legal system, and to be better prepared to understand the needs of clients at home. Empirical data shows that study abroad programs promote cultural sensitivity, self-reflection, and self-reliance, some of the very values that clinical educators hope to impart to their students. A survey of SHCLEP participants confirms these findings. Law schools should send their students to participate in the clinical programs of law schools in other countries as part of international clinical exchange programs that emphasize a comparative clinical law experience.