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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 …
The Clinical Method Of Legal Instruction: Its Theory And Implementation, David R. Barnhizer
The Clinical Method Of Legal Instruction: Its Theory And Implementation, David R. Barnhizer
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This article assists the process of understanding the clinical methodology by analyzing the following premises. 1. The method of instruction termed "clinical" differs from the Langdellian appellate casebook method in only one respect--the clinical method collects directly experienced legal processes involving a third party (the client) as its core of material studied by the law student while the casebook method utilizes collections of vicariously or indirectly experienced two-dimensional material as its core of learning material. 2. Issues of what specific educational goals are selected by the law teacher, and the techniques of instruction (Socratic, lecture, discussion, videotapes, etc.) are not …
The History Of Legal Education In Virginia, William Hamilton Bryson
The History Of Legal Education In Virginia, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
Many methods of legal education have been used over the years. Each has its strengths and its weaknesses. The study of the past is instructive and useful in showing both the good and bad goals and methods. We must cultivate the good and uproot the bad. This study suggests that there has always been progress, slow but constant improvement. The teaching of law is vital to the administration of justice, a noble cause. The continuing challenge is ever to strive for the improvement thereof.
Teaching Legal Writing In The Law Schools (With A Special Nod To Legal Drafting), Reed Dickerson
Teaching Legal Writing In The Law Schools (With A Special Nod To Legal Drafting), Reed Dickerson
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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