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The Search For Competence: Implications For Academe, F. Murray Fraser
The Search For Competence: Implications For Academe, F. Murray Fraser
Dalhousie Law Journal
Professor Francis Allen states succinctly the problem which faces academic lawyers in these times of rapid and dramatic change: ... law schools in Canada and the United States are undergoing an identity crisis as they attempt to provide broad interdisciplinary and humanistic education and, at the same time, meet the demands for training in legal skills.' The problem is not new. The statement simply reflects the harsh reality of Canadian legal education: the natural tensions which result from the interdependence of university programs in law and the later processes of admission and continuing education under the jurisdiction of governing bodies. …
The Social Costs Of Incompetence: An Educator's View, A. Wayne Mackay
The Social Costs Of Incompetence: An Educator's View, A. Wayne Mackay
Dalhousie Law Journal
After I had cut off my hands and grown new ones, something my former hands had longed for came and asked to be rocked. After my plucked out eyes had withered and new ones grown, something my former eyes had wept for came asking to be pitied. 2 The above quotation has been applied to lawyers and in particular the process of legal education. It is a distressing thought for anyone who cares about the law and considers it a worthy profession. Must people sever hands that can rock and pluck out eyes that can pity in order to become …
What Makes A Law School Great?, Maxwell Cohen
What Makes A Law School Great?, Maxwell Cohen
Dalhousie Law Journal
It is very humbling to try and match the amusing candor and informed wisdom of Professor Willis Reese, and so I will try to use his anecdotal insights only as a launching pad for my long repressed ambivalence about law schools and legal education. On the whole, Professor Reese comes down on the side of student brains as against the prepared onslaught of the faculty. Nothing can harm the good student and very little can be expected to help him since he often is abler than the teacher and even more often, believes it. Despite Professor Reese's affluent infrastructure - …
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 …