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Prefatory Remark, Robert B. Mckay
Prefatory Remark, Robert B. Mckay
Cleveland State Law Review
Does clinical legal education meet the test of necessity? An affirmative answer is here suggested for the following reasons. First, skills training is an important adjunct to analytical training and is nowhere better provided than in appropriately designed clinical programs. Second, neither students nor prospective employers should be satisfied with a legal education that omits reference to the practical world of skills training. Third, contrary to the common belief of earlier generations, skills training can be better accomplished through the systematic training programs of the law schools than through the more haphazard training of law firms and other law offices.
Here's What We Do: Some Notes About Clinical Legal Education, Stephen Wizner, Dennis Curtis
Here's What We Do: Some Notes About Clinical Legal Education, Stephen Wizner, Dennis Curtis
Cleveland State Law Review
For the past decade we have been engaged in developing the Yale Law School clinical program. From time to time academic colleagues, practicing lawyers, and even non-lawyers have asked what we do. Until we were invited to do so, however, we never could bring ourselves to put down on paper some of our thoughts about legal education in general, and clinical legal education in particular, gleaned from years of working in the field. These notes represent a beginning in that direction.
Prefatory Remark, William Pincus
Prefatory Remark, William Pincus
Cleveland State Law Review
Clinical legal education actually is severely restricted and discriminated against by law school faculties. I know that if special attention is not given to clinical legal education in the foreseeable future it is likely that clinics in the law schools will continue to be a fringe activity without recognition of their educational value and importance, and that clinics will eventually decline in numbers and significance from their present status.