ADR to invade law school curriculum

<p>This article discusses the resistance experienced by the clinical legal education movement in Italy due to a widespread legal positivist approach which views law as a self-contained technical subject, and excludes interdisciplinarity from the law school curriculum.</p><p>The choice that the newly-born Italian CLE movement now faces is the option to either become a new socio-legal epistemology of law in action and a social change-maker, or to ascribe to a simple restyling of legal education to include certain practical activities aimed at introducing students to the profession. The future of the movement will depend on whether the rapid increase in the number of clinics will be matched by appropriate reflection on "how clinics might be consciously designed around exposing students to gaps between the law in books and the law in action".</p>

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Teaching Health Law

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1111/j.1748-720x.2010.00539.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 863-870 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marshall B. Kapp

Keyword(s):

Medical Schools ◽

School Curriculum ◽

Law School ◽

Faculty Members ◽

Health Law ◽

Tenure Track ◽

Law Schools ◽

Faculty Position ◽

Roles And Responsibilities ◽

Law Faculty

Thirty years ago when I, an attorney, took a tenure-track faculty position at an innovative, newly opened medical school, I was an oddity — truly, a stranger in a strange land. Today it is not uncommon for American medical schools to employ an attorney as a tenured or tenure-track member of its faculty. Over these last three decades, the educational roles and responsibilities of health law faculty who teach in law schools have become increasingly well defined, with numerous health law courses and textbooks now generally accepted as part of the typical law school curriculum. However, the roles and responsibilities of attorney faculty members who teach in medical schools remain less clearly defined and likely are more individualized to the particular medical schools in which they teach. This essay explores some of the challenges and the opportunities which are given to attorney faculty members who teach in medical schools.

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