The Tragedy of the Student Commons: Law Student Transfers and Legal Education

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Rensberger
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Student Transfers ◽  
Law Student

Taking Clinical Legal Education from Classrooms to Streets: A Practical Perspective to Solving Social Problems

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-151
Author(s):  
Cosmos Nike Nwedu
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Law School ◽  
Court System ◽  
School Students ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Law Student ◽  
Education Justice ◽  
Law School Students

Whenever the discourse of clinical legal education (CLE) ascends, the likely injudicious assumption that may come to one’s mind, especially of a layman is that, it concerns only classroom or clinically confined pedagogy marked by simulations; in-house law student learning activities that end up with their regular experiences of the learning processes. However, CLE in reality, beyond parochial thinking is a socio-legal justice tool for addressing motley challenges of humanity particularly those that confront poverty-stricken and vulnerable citizens who are always undid from equal opportunities and access to the court system. Thus, this article argues that CLE transcends what goes on in typical classrooms or law clinics. The article explores different realistic clinical legal education justice initiatives (CLEJIs) that university and law school students can work with in fostering social justice in a wider societal context. To achieve this purpose, the article considers a rethink of the concept of CLE to capture its historical rationales against definitional setback offered by some authors. It further highlights some critical issues indispensable for the sustainability of CLE initiatives around the world. While the argument of this study draws upon existing findings, it presents new ideas achieved through synthesis of thinking in a qualitatively analytical perspective.

scholarly journals Clinical Legal Education and its Implication on Legal Education System in Pakistan: Challenges and Prospects

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Rashida Zahoor ◽  
Naureen Akhtar ◽  
Rao Imran Habib
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Education Law ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Law Student

Purpose: To improve the standard of legal education, legal clinic is one of the modern techniques. Legal profession is a noble profession as it is considered to uphold the justice in a society. A law student may be taught in a such manner that he must be well equipped with professional skills. Methodology: Previous studies have been discussed with the help of current data for thorough review of challenges in Pakistan.  Findings: In Pakistan, legal education system needs many reforms in order to produce good lawyers. Without professional skills and practical knowledge; a law graduate is unable to utilize his degree in a proper manner. To attain such professional skills; legal clinics are good approach. Where students may be able to seek practical knowledge and also helping the deserving people. LL. B degree awarding institutions shall make it possible to provide clinical legal education. Law clinics must be installed in law faculties where the experts may be available to educate students. Implications: In this paper, the importance of law clinic is discussed and certain issues are highlighted which are prevailing in current legal education system of Pakistan. Study can help out policy makers to identify challenges and to overcome these issues they can formulate different strategies.     

scholarly journals Assessing Online Learning in Law Schools: Students Say Online Classes Deliver

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Dutton ◽  
Margaret Ryznar
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Student Surveys ◽  
Law Student

96 Denver Law Review 493 (2019) This Article provides empirical data on the effectiveness of distance education in law schools following the American Bar Association's decision to increase the number of permitted online course credits from fifteen to thirty. Our data, composed of law student surveys and focus groups, reveals not only the success of distance education in legal education, but also the online teaching methods that are most effective for students.

scholarly journals Computer-Aided Instruction in Law: Theories, Techniques, and Trepidations

1978 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Park ◽  
Russell Burris
Keyword(s):  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Computer Assisted Instruction ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Law Student ◽  
Assisted Instruction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Education Process ◽  
Simulation Exercises

Legal education is only beginning to make use of the technological capabilities of computers as a medium for instructional design. In this article the authors show the applicability of computer-assisted instruction to law through programmed instructional techniques. They trace the two decades of development of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in law, the use and misuse of the computer's capabilities, the impact of CAI on law student attitudes and performance, and the positive student endorsement. They carefully analyze the computer's capacity for use in memory drills, tutorial sessions, and simulation exercises. They do not offer an unrestricted endorsement of the computer's capabilities but hope for the continuing development of CAI in the legal education process.

Legal Education: The Consumers' Perspective

1976 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1161-1192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald M. Pipkin
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Special Committee ◽  
Major Purpose ◽  
Student Activity ◽  
Bar Association ◽  
Law Student

This paper is the first in a series on data collected for the Law Student Activity Patterns Project. The project is one of several discrete studies in the research program in legal education of the American Bar Foundation, conducted at the request of the American Bar Association House of Delegates, with the advice and consultation of the Special Committee for the Study of Legal Education. A major purpose of this research is to develop an understanding of the professionalization of law students in behavioral terms, that is, in terms of patterned activities and time use. However, we will first present a series of initial reports analyzing data relevant to other general concerns about contemporary legal education.

scholarly journals Climate Crisis, Legal Education and Law Student Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Law Student ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
The Impact

This article addresses the impact of the climate crisis on the mental health of young people in the context of legal education. It reviews the evidence on youth mental health regarding the climate crisis and applies it to what is already known about law student well-being. Drawing on theories of learning design, the article considers a range of pedagogical strategies that law schools can use to engage students who are committed to action on climate change through law. A case study, the Climate Justice Initiative at The University of Queensland School of Law, is presented as one example of what is possible. This article emphasises the significance of a partnership approach to student engagement and contends that this may yield benefits especially in the context of climate change-related legal work. Despite the negative psychological impact of the climate crisis on law students, it concludes that there are practical activities that law schools can and should initiate to support student well-being. 

scholarly journals Promoting academic integrity in legal education: 'Unanswered questions' on disclosure

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin James ◽  
Saadia Mahmud
Keyword(s):  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Disclosure Requirements ◽  
Law Student ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Academic Integrity Policy ◽  
Australian Universities

Law students are a special case in academic integrity. If a law student breaches academic integrity policy, such as by plagiarism or collusion during their legal education, it may have long-term consequences for their reputation and their future in the legal profession. Graduating law students applying for admission to practise as a lawyer are advised to disclose mere investigations, whether or not they were found to have breached the rules, as failure to disclose may lead to their admission being refused or delayed. This paper analyses the views of 28 academic integrity stakeholders across six Australian universities, interviewed by the Academic Integrity Standards Project, with a specific focus on the 12 interviewees that were associated with legal education in their own institution. While the broader understanding of academic integrity among participants associated with legal education was similar to that of the overall participants interviewed in the study, legal academics raised the issue of disclosure requirements for a breach of academic integrity policy by students, given the significant professional consequences for a law student. Based on our findings, we propose a need for clarity and uniformity in the rules of disclosure as part of the emerging national legal profession. We also propose an approach that promotes academic integrity as an emergent professional integrity among law students, rather than focusing resources on identification and punishing students who breach academic integrity policy.

scholarly journals Clinical Legal Education: Bridging the gap between study and legal practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Jessica Kaczmarek ◽  
Jacquie Mangan
Keyword(s):  
Education Program ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Case File ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Client Relationships ◽  
Law Student ◽  
Law Degree

<p>For a law student, the academic study of the law and the actual practice of its principles seem worlds apart. With our desk piled high with books, case reports and legislation, the opportunity to experience and reflect upon the human interaction that underpins legal practice is notably lacking. While good lawyer client relationships are vital to successful legal practice, at present, a law student can obtain their law degree without ever interviewing a client or managing a case file. It was with this paradox in mind that during 2000 we embraced the opportunity to be a part of a clinical legal education program run by La Trobe University’s School of Law and Legal Studies.</p>

What Will Rising Law School Tuition Fees Mean for Law and Learning?

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo-Anne Pickel
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Law School ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Canadian Law ◽  
Twentieth Anniversary ◽  
Law Student ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Last year, the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto approved a plan that will see tuition fees increase from $12 000 to $22 000 dollars over the next five years. Other Canadian law faculties are beginning to follow, or are considering following, the University of Toronto's lead. In light of this trend toward higher tuition fees, the time is ripe to step back and ask: what will this mean for legal education in Canada? In particular, on the twentieth anniversary of the release of Law and Learning (the “Arthurs Report”), it would seem important to reflect on the impact that higher tuition fees might have on law and learning in Canada. What will dramatic increases in tuition mean for the values and laudable objectives set out in the Arthurs Report? These are some of the issues that I seek to address, partly through a personal reflection on my own experience as a law student and as someone who is near the completion of graduate studies in law.

The Einheitsjurist: A German Phenomenon

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Keilmann
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
English Expression ◽  
German System ◽  
Law Student

Despite never-ending discussion and innumerable reforms, the German system of legal education still has as its objective the so-called Einheitsjurist. This being a German specialty, it is almost impossible to find an English expression for it. One might try the translation “uniform jurist.” To qualify as an Einheitsjurist, every law student must go through the same legal education no matter which of the classical juridical professions he or she wants to pursue. To be admitted to the Bar, the same formal qualification is required as for the admission to the Bench. In both cases you have to pass the “second state exam.”

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