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UCLA School of Law offers specialization opportunities in: (1) Business Law and Policy; (2) Critical Race Studies; (3) Public Interest Law and Policy; (4) Environmental Law; (5) International and Comparative Law; (6) Law and Philosophy; and (7) Media, Entertainment and Technology Law and Policy.
- Hon. Sandra R. Klein
- 2019
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- Overview of Legal Education
- five key Observations
- Two Major Limitations of Legal education
- 4 Assessment of Student Learning Remains Underdeveloped.
- Toward a more Integrated model: a historic Opportunity to advance Legal Education
- from the Start.
- 4 Support Faculty to Work Across the Curriculum.
- 6 Recognize a Common Purpose.
- 7 Work Together, Within and Across Institutions.
- Examples from the field
- The rewards of Innovation
- Board of trustees
WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN is a senior scholar at the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching. He is the author of Work and Integrity and co-author of Habits of the Heart. ANNE COLBY co-directs the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching’s Preparation for the Professions Program and Higher education and the development of Moral and...
The profession of law is fundamental to the flourishing of American democracy. Today, however, critics of the legal profession, both from within and without, have pointed to a great profession suffering from varying degrees of confusion and demoralization. A reawakening of professional élan must include revitalizing legal preparation. It is hard to...
education of professionals is a complex educational process, and its value depends in large part upon how well the several aspects of professional training are understood and woven into a whole. That is the challenge for legal education: linking the interests of legal educators with the needs of legal practitioners and with the public the professio...
observATIoN 1 Law School Provides Rapid Socialization into the Standards of Legal Thinking. Law schools are impressive educational institutions. In a relatively short period of time, they are able to impart a distinctive habit of thinking that forms the basis for their students’ development as legal professionals. Visiting schools of different t...
Most law schools give only casual attention to teaching students how to use legal thinking in the complexity of actual law practice. Unlike other professional education, most notably medical school, legal education typically pays relatively little attention to direct training in professional practice. The result is to prolong and reinforce the habi...
Assessment of what students have learned—what they know and are able to do—is important in all forms of professional education. In law schools, too, assessing students’ competence performs several important educational functions. In its familiar summative form, assessment sorts and selects students. From the start, assessment is used as a filter; l...
Law school provides the beginning, not the full development, of students’ professional competence and identity. At present, what most students get as a beginning is insufficient. students need a dynamic curriculum that moves them back and forth between understanding and enactment, experience and analysis. Law schools face an increasingly urgent nee...
The existing common core of legal education needs to be expanded to provide students substantial experience with practice as well as opportunities to wrestle with the issues of professionalism. Further, and building on the work already underway in several law schools, the teaching of legal analysis, while remaining central, should not stand alone a...
Both doctrinal and practical courses are likely to be most effective if faculty who teach them have some significant experience with the other, complementary area. since all law faculty have experienced the case-dialogue classroom from their own education, doctrinal faculty will probably make the more significant pedagogical discoveries as they obs...
Amid the useful varieties of mission and emphasis among American law schools, the formation of competent and committed professionals deserves and needs to be the common, unifying purpose. A focus on the forma-tion of professionals would give renewed prominence to the ideals and commitments that have historically defined the legal profession in Amer...
Legal education is complex, with its different emphases of legal analysis, training for practice and development of professional identity. The integration we advocate will depend upon rather than override the development of students’ expertise within each of the different emphases. But integration can flourish only if law schools can consciously or...
some law schools are already addressing the need for a more dynamic, integrated curriculum. The work of centers such as the Institute for Law school Teaching at the Gonzaga University school of Law and a far-flung network of legal educators that has resulted in the report “Best Practices for Legal education” testify to substantial interest in aspec...
Developing an integrated curriculum and approach to teaching designed to meet a common mission of forming professionals will not be a simple or effortless process. On the part of faculty, it will require both drawing more fully on one’s own experience and learning from each other. It will also require creativity. Greater coherence and integration i...
rIChArd C. AtkINSON President Emeritus University of California System La Jolla, California JürgEN BAUMErt Managing Director Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, Germany rEBECCA S. ChOpp, Vice Chair President Colgate University Hamilton, New York YEhUdA ELkANA President and Rector The Central European University Budapest, Hungary BErN...
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learning, design thinking, data analytics, clinical legal education, apprenticeships, experi- ential learning and regulatory reform, and in doing so, offer a vision of what modern legal education might look like.
Mar 26, 2015 · This article examines a specific form of education designed to serve both professional formation and liberal education, namely legal education.
- Kim Economides
Legal education is a human science which binding of philosophies, ideologies, techniques, critiques skills and instrumentalities for the maintenance of a just society. This article emphasises on legal education reform which is arising throughout the world.
INTRODUCTION. or decades, many law school graduates have looked back at their legal education and concluded that they were not properly prepared to practice law.1Consequently, from time to time, the American Bar Association (ABA) and other bar groups have studied how to change law school education.
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American legal education has lagged behind professional education in other fields, such as medicine, in its failure to place sufficient emphasis upon the practical dimensions of the discipline.
