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Law Schools And Public Legal Education: The Community Law Programme At Windsor, R. A. Macdonald
Law Schools And Public Legal Education: The Community Law Programme At Windsor, R. A. Macdonald
Dalhousie Law Journal
The term public legal education is of relatively recent vintage. Although the Bar has long acknowledged a responsibility to provide the public with information about the law and our legal system, it usually assumed that the private practitioner could perform this function adequately within the context of his daily practice. Only in the last decade have we come to realize that this function was not being performed and that general information about the law was unavailable to most citizens.' Not only was the Bar not involved in "access to justice" problems, but those engaged in legal education seemed to have …
Legal Education In Canadian Schools?, Hugh M. Kindred
Legal Education In Canadian Schools?, Hugh M. Kindred
Dalhousie Law Journal
Law courses have exploded across school programmes in recent years. From one end of Canada to the other, thousands of students and hundreds of school teachers are now studying law. Just what they are learning is uncertain for, apart from a head count of those present in the classroom, there is little curricular enquiry and even less organisation. The effort appears to be an unled mass movement rather than a planned educational development. And its size is still growing. The origins of this explosion of legal interest explain its unorganised character. The pressure for legal education has come from the …