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The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education: More than a Method
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In this article, 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 are discussed.Abstract:
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.read more
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Training for Justice: The Global Reach of Clinical Legal Education
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International Initiatives that Facilitate Global Mobility in Higher Education
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U.S. Legal Education Methods and Ideals: Application to the Japanese and Korean Systems
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The Bologna Process and its Implications for U.S. Legal Education
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Clinicalism: an emerging theory in legal pedagogy
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory in the field of legal pedagogy is proposed to identify clinical concepts, define clinical education's roots, goals, and objectives, and define clinical concepts.
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Assumptions that devalue university teaching
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Legal education and training in England and Wales: back to the future
Andrew Boon,Julian Webb +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that many of the changes and tensions facing English legal education result from both an underlying epistemic uncertainty about the nature of the legal education project and a tendency to respond ad hoc to national, regional, and globalizing pressures.
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Training for Justice: The Global Reach of Clinical Legal Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define what the author means by clinical legal education and discuss its world-wide dissemination, primarily through foundations and government funding: the Ford Foundation, the Open Society programs of George Soros, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the American Bar Association's CEELI program, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, and some international financial institutions such as the World Bank.
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The Rise and Fall of Chinese Legal Education
TL;DR: The authors argued that the current bubble in Chinese legal education is largely the result of state policies pursued since the late 1990s, which pushed the rapid expansion of university legal education through the use of one-size-fits-all target evaluation systems.