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How A Mediation Clinic Can Inform The Curriculum, Dr Leonardo J. Raznovich, Ben Waters
How A Mediation Clinic Can Inform The Curriculum, Dr Leonardo J. Raznovich, Ben Waters
Dr Leonardo J Raznovich
There are many different ways and settings in which the curriculum can be developed to provide clinical legal education to students at university level within the UK. With the assistance of HEFCE research informed teaching funding and after nearly a year of preparatory research, two members of the Legal Studies team, in department of Crime and Policing at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) in England set up a mediation clinic as a fundamental element of the development of a Qualifying Law Degree. The clinic at Canterbury Christ Church University is unique, not least for the fact that it is the …
Legal Studies: How To Narrow The Gap Between Law And Society, Leonardo J. Raznovich
Legal Studies: How To Narrow The Gap Between Law And Society, Leonardo J. Raznovich
Dr Leonardo J Raznovich
The main thesis of this paper is that the teaching of law should take a different approach to that of the current law degree. Students should be equipped with the various knowledge and competences that make them suitable to appreciate not only the theory of law but the interactions between law and society. This paper will conclude that a law degree that follows the socio-legal approach from a critical legal perspective should be the appropriate methodology because it exposes students to the influences and impacts made on legal theory by the social sciences as well as that made on society …