Full Description
Globally, the methodologies of legal education have not changed in any fundamental way, some methods dating back hundreds of years. Law schools have relied, for too long, on passive learning methods such as lectures or cases. Clinical legal education provides an alternative that is more than just another pedagogical method. It provides a way for students to experience their emerging professional selves, while providing services or projects with poor and underrepresented clients. This book documents both the historical origins of clinical experiments in the earliest days of US university legal education, and the now-global reach of clinical pedagogy as a proven tool for effective training of legal professionals.
Contents
Introduction; 1. A global tour of legal education's primary teaching methods: the persistence of tradition; Part I. Origins: 2. Early University legal education in the US: a pedagogy of practice from the Antebellum Period to 1917; 3. The earliest legal clinics: dispensaries, clinics, the legal aid connection and the roots of a movement, 1870-1916; 4. The clinical model in early US medical training: why law didn't follow; 5. Theory and clinical legal education; Part II. Global Reach: 6. Clinical legal education in Latin America; 7. Clinical legal education in Central and Eastern Europe; 8. Clinical legal education in Africa; 9. Clinical legal education in East Asia; 10. Clinical legal education in Central, South East and South Asia, and the Pacific Island nations; 11. Clinical legal education in the Middle East; 12. Clinical legal education in continental Western Europe.
