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Learning By Doing: Adding A Clinical Component To A Traditional Family Law Course, Cynthia Grant Bowman
Learning By Doing: Adding A Clinical Component To A Traditional Family Law Course, Cynthia Grant Bowman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This paper describes a clinical component recently added to the course in Family Law at Cornell Law School. Students who are either co-registered for or have previously taken Family Law receive an extra two credits for clinical work under the instructor's supervision. Each student undertakes to represent at least one client, who is referred from Neighborhood Legal Services, from the initial client interview through drafting, filing and service of the many documents required to obtain a final judgment for dissolution of marriage in New York State. In order to complete this work in one semester, the students do relatively simple …
Legal Education In An Era Of Globalisation And The Challenge Of Development, Muna Ndulo
Legal Education In An Era Of Globalisation And The Challenge Of Development, Muna Ndulo
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The article examines the challenges legal education faces as a result of globalisation with specific reference to African law schools. It considers the challenges and ways of meeting them. The practice of law in a globalised world requires a body of knowledge which is both complex and interdisciplinary. It requires the acquisition of a broad range of new skills and techniques of solving legal problems. To equip lawyers with the needed skills to practise law in a globalised world will require changes in the traditional law school curriculum. It will require a curriculum which trains lawyers for the practice of …