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Progress Is A Chameleon, Melanie D. Wilson
Progress Is A Chameleon, Melanie D. Wilson
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Progress is a chameleon. Its hue changes with our perspective, which is influenced by our race, gender, socio-economic status, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, age, and ancestry, among other influences. The amount of progress we perceive also varies from person to person and depends on the type of law we practice and whether we work in a small town or big city. Perhaps most importantly, how we view the rapidity of change in the legal profession — as stagnant, developing, or somewhere in between — is impacted by our unique experiences, our psychology, the length of time we have been lawyers, …
A Tribute To Professor Jonathan Rohr, Melanie D. Wilson
A Tribute To Professor Jonathan Rohr, Melanie D. Wilson
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A Tribute to Professor Jonathan Rohr.
Exploring The Role Of Emotions In Clinical Legal Education: Inquiry And Results From An International Workshop For Legal Educators, Catherine F. Klein, Kate Seear, Lisa Bliss, Paul Galowitz
Exploring The Role Of Emotions In Clinical Legal Education: Inquiry And Results From An International Workshop For Legal Educators, Catherine F. Klein, Kate Seear, Lisa Bliss, Paul Galowitz
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Clinical legal education provides a unique opportunity to engage with emotions. This article describes and reflects on an interactive workshop that examined the nature, meaning and significance of emotions in clinical legal education. Through a variety of incorporated staged activities, employing the teaching methods of scaffolding as well as backward design, participants explored aspects of the emotional dimensions of the relationships between clinical teachers/supervisors and their students, along with the relationship between students and their clients. Participants extracted ideas for how educators should approach emotions when they surface in legal clinics. This article provides a detailed overview regarding the rationale …
Expanding And Strengthening Legal Clinical Education In Ukraine, Leah Wortham
Expanding And Strengthening Legal Clinical Education In Ukraine, Leah Wortham
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On June 21, 2017, I submitted a report to USAID Nove Pravosuddya Justice Sector Reform Program (New Justice) titled A Role for Regulations, Standards, Best Practices, and Monitoring in Building Strong Clinical Legal Education Programs. That report centered on an analysis of three documents: (1) the Draft Model Regulation on Legal Clinic of a Higher Educational Institution as posted by the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science (MOE) on April 19, 2017; (2) the Standards for Legal Clinics Functioning in Ukraine developed by the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine (ALCU) (hereafter Standards); (3) a draft instrument to monitor …