Format:
xii, 348 Seiten
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781107025615
Content:
"There is a global revolution taking place within university legal education. It is taking place on many fronts, particularly since the dawning of the twenty-first century. The focus of this book is that ongoing and growing revolution, and it is assaulting the deepest traditions of the legal academy. The rapid global spread of clinical legal education, as a non-traditional method of instruction and as a guide to and context for socially conscious lawyering, is changing and improving the role of law schools in the preparation of students for law practice. Clinical education, as the name implies, involves law students in learning law by guided practice during law school. Ideally, that setting involves real cases, clients or other project-based work with client communities, usually with the poor or other marginalized populations without other access to counsel. Clinical education, intensely learning-focused, is challenging the dominant traditions of teacher-centric legal education: the case method, largely taught using case-books in the United States, and the lecture, still used almost exclusively in Europe and other traditional law schools throughout the world. Clinical education does not seek to overthrow that tradition, but to offer an alternative, additional route to learning, grounded in modern ideas of cognitive science and adult learning.In fact, clinical legal education is more than a method -it is pathway toward personal and professional identity for students, manifesting itself in each student's distinctly personal experience, and it is a model, not only for all professional lawyering, but particularly for one of conscience in the service of individuals, groups or populations otherwise without equal access to law or lawyers"--
Content:
A global tour of legal education's primary teaching methods : the persistence of tradition -- Early university legal education in the United States : a pedagogy of practice from the antebellum period to 1917 -- The earliest legal clinics : dispensaries, clinics, the legal aid connection, and the roots of a movement, 1870-1916 -- The clinical model in early US medical training : why law didn't follow -- Theory and clinical legal education -- Clinical legal education in Latin America -- Clinical legal education in Central and Eastern Europe -- Clinical legal education in Africa -- Clinical legal education in East Asia -- Clinical legal education in Central, Southeast, and South Asia, and the Pacific Island Nations -- Clinical legal education in the Middle East -- Clinical legal education in continental Western Europe
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Juristisches Studium
;
Lerntechnik
