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Beyond Skills Training, Revisited: The Clinical Education Spiral, Carolyn Grose
Beyond Skills Training, Revisited: The Clinical Education Spiral, Carolyn Grose
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Legal Education And Professional Skills: Myths And Misconceptions About Theory And Practice, Kate Kruse
Legal Education And Professional Skills: Myths And Misconceptions About Theory And Practice, Kate Kruse
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Current critiques of legal education push law schools toward seemingly contradictory goals: (1) provide more practical training to a greater number of students; and (2) lower operational costs. This article addresses those who have a sincere desire to meet both goals. Although it offers a proposal for restructuring legal education, its primary focuses is on the mental and psychological barriers — the mistakes in thinking — that prevent law faculties from engaging in substantial. At the deepest level is a basic myth: that professional education can meaningfully separate theory from practice. This myth divides legal education into a series of …