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The Futures of Legal Education and the Legal Profession

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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015

We are currently witnessing an unprecedented transformation in the legal profession and legal education. The Legal Services Act 2007 and the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 have both enabled and necessitated dramatic structural changes to the profession, as well as impacting...

Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy

A Polemic Against the System

by Duncan Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004

In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. This controversial booklet was reviewed in several major law journals—unprecedented for a self-published work—and influenced a generation...

Perspectives on Legal Education

Contemporary Responses to the Lord Upjohn Lectures

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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

This edited collection offers a critical overview of the major debates in legal education set in the context of the Lord Upjohn Lectures, the annual event that draws together legal educators and professionals in the United Kingdom to consider the major debates and changes in the field. Presented...

Reforming Legal Education

Law Schools at the Crossroads

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

In today’s volatile law school environment, curriculum reform has emerged as a significant focus. It is commonly understood that law schools effectively teach certain analytical skills, but are less successful in other areas, and often scramble to adapt to evolving aims. This book demonstrates how...

Dangerous Leaders

How and Why Lawyers Must Be Taught to Lead

by Anthony C. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018

Flint, Michigan's water crisis, the New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, Enron: all these incidents are examples of various forms of leadership failure. More specifically, each represents marked failures among leaders with legal training. When we look closer at one profession from which we often...

Beyond Legal Reasoning: a Critique of Pure Lawyering

by Jeffrey Lipshaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017

The concept of learning to ‘think like a lawyer’ is one of the cornerstones of legal education in the United States and beyond. In this book, Jeffrey Lipshaw provides a critique of the traditional views of ‘thinking like a lawyer’ or ‘pure lawyering’ aimed at lawyers, law professors, and...

Law School

Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s

by Robert Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

In this first general history of legal education, Stevens traces the development of law schools, the legal profession, and legal thought, relating their evolution to intellectual, political, and social trends. He describes how the establishment gained power over education after 1920 and how, in the...

The Hacker's Guide To Better Law School Notes

by SHANE LEE
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016

Note-taking in Law School is a Completely Different Ball-game from regular Note-taking...Just like how a Legal Education isn't your regular kind of Education, Note-taking in Law School isn't your regular kind of Note-taking.Ever feel like your fingers can't keep up with the verbiage spilling...

Neglected Policies

Constitutional Law and Legal Commentary as Civic Education

by Ira L. Strauber
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2002

In Neglected Policies, Ira L. Strauber challenges scholars and critics of constitutional jurisprudence to think differently about the Constitution and its interpretation. He argues that important aspects of law, policies, and politics are neglected because legal formalisms, philosophical theories,...

The Great Transition in Legal Education

Special Issue of the Manitoba Law Journal, Volume 39(1)

by Bryan Paul Schwartz Dr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017

In the 1960s, the University of Manitoba Law School moved from being an downtown, practitioner-taught law school to the suburban campus of a large university. This great transition was modelled after many in Canada. The debate has arisen as to whether law schools have become excessively immersed in...

Failing Law Schools

by Brian Z. Tamanaha
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012

On the surface, law schools today are thriving. Enrollments are on the rise, and their resources are often the envy of every other university department. Law professors are among the highest paid and play key roles as public intellectuals, advisers, and government officials. Yet behind the flourishing...

Law School 20|20

by Matthew Ormsbee
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013

Law School 20|20 is a modern, all-encompassing guide for law school applicants, students, and graduates. It addresses all aspects of getting into law school, succeeding in law school, and choosing the career path that's right for you. "20|20" refers to the book's unique take on legal education...

Reimagining Clinical Legal Education

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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018

Clinical Legal Education (CLE) can be defined in broad terms as the study of law through real, or simulated, casework. It enables students to experience the law in action and to reflect on those experiences. CLE offers an alternative learning experience to the traditional lecture/seminar method and...

English Legal System Eighth Edition

by Jacqueline Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016

Support your students with this accessible and authoritative introductory textbook for the English Legal System - from the author and publisher you trust. Written by Jacqueline Martin, who has helped hundreds of thousands pass their exams and enjoy their studies, The English Legal System, 8th...