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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Legal education"”.
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The legal education - legal practice relationship: a critical evaluation
… critically evaluates the relationship between legal practice and legal education, with particular attention to the law degree. It analyses how the relationship has been discussed in the academic literature and in landmark legal education reform reports. It is a literature based thesis, focusing …
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Legal education in crisis: healing and humanizing Canadian law schools /
… from an identity and moral crisis. Many of the legal profession's problems can be traced to the law school environment, where students are taught to reason and practice in ways that are often at odds with their own personalities and values and even with generally accepted psychologically healthy …
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The value of using education research to enhance the curriculum in legal education
… that illustrate how my work has had an impact on legal education at Liverpool John Moores University, and further impact on the external higher education landscape. It demonstrates how extrinsic evidence and action research methods were used to develop aspects of the curriculum and overall …
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Legal Education: An Exploration of Its Inclusion in the Public Schools of Alabama.
… means of social control, particularly the educational system. Of particular concern is the need for instilling democratic attitudes and a sense of good citizenship as a way of combating the delinquent behavior of juveniles. The chapter further points out the universality of law and the …
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A Study of the Diffusion of Information Pertaining to Formal Continuing Legal Education
… that theories and models of the continuing education participation process are not found in today's literature. It appears that we need to more fully understand factors that influence participation. In an attempt to uncover factors related to participation in continuing professional …
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Blending Doctrine, Practice, and Purpose in Legal Education: The Case for an Integrated Pedagogy
Traditional legal education is sorely imbalanced. A law student receives rigorous training in legal doctrine and analytical skills—he learns to "think like a lawyer"—but is left with little training in practical skills or his ethical role in society. Moreover, law schools rely almost exclusively on …
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Mastering tribunal forms: teaching students in law-related programs using public legal education and information
Law clerks and licensed paralegals in Ontario prepare standardized tribunal-issued forms, such as those for the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB), on behalf of their clients. Training paralegal candidates and law clerk students to produce these complex forms is a core part of their education in …
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Organizational Change In The Legal Education Environment: Institutional And Individual Responses To Times Of Crisis
… and enrollment as individuals sought an education that would lead to employment. Within a few years, however, the job market for new lawyers deteriorated. By 2010-2011, the number of applications to law schools plummeted, as did the enrollment numbers. Since tuition is the life blood of …
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Legal Education through a Social Justice Lens: A Framework for Teaching Law in the South African Context
… legitimate to prioritize social justice in the Legal Education discipline. Three sets of literature support this argument. First, South African higher education policy, which emphasizes the need to produce graduates who are able to contribute to societal transformation. Second, the University of …
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Canadian Contract Law Teaching and the Failure to Operationalize: Theory Practice, Realism Formalism, and Aspiration Reality in Contemporary Legal Education
… the relationship between theory and practice in legal education. Professors express a widespread aspiration to translate theory into practice – to incorporate theoretical and critical perspectives as a means of producing “better lawyers.” However, an analysis of the substantive theoretical …
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Klinikinis teisės mokymo metodas /
Clinical legal education originated in United States of America as a balance for Langdell and Socratic methods. Though first steps were taken in the begging of the 20th century, it took nearly 50 years to gain its recognition. The main reason was the uncertain content of this education method. …
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Towards Implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action in Law Schools: A Settler Harm Reduction Approach to Racial Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Legal Orders in Canadian Legal Education
… subordinate Indigenous peoples and their legal orders in Canadian legal education. These processes present a barrier to the implementation of the Calls. To ethically and respectfully implement these Calls, faculty and administration must reduce racial stereotyping and prejudice against …
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Aspects of information literacy with regards to the use of legal resources : case study of third year undergraduate law students of the University of Cape Town, South Africa and University of Jos, Nigeria
… of information literacy in the context of legal education specifically as it affects issues on the conduct of the legal research skills of undergraduate students as well as the need for its integration into the curriculum of legal education. A review of the literature shows that little …
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The Ulu Lehua Program at the William S. Richardson School of Law. Policy Context and Lived Experience, a Phenomenological Case Study
… was the name of the program until 2006. The legal context of affirmative action has dramatically changed since 1973. The project of the Ulu Lehua Program is diversity, and more particularly, inclusion. This paper examines how the lived experience of the program has shaped the professional …
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A autoridade acadêmica das mulheres docentes da graduação em Direito da FDUFBA, em 2023.
… as the male authority counterparts in legal education? What is the impact of female underrepresentation on critical legal education and the formation of legal knowledge? To propose possible answers and new questions regarding the role of women in legal knowledge, from the perspective of …
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Responsive and Democratic Evaluation of a Law School Curriculum: A Case Study
… is aiming to. Taken for granted views about how legal education has traditionally been arranged and conducted, what students learn and what they need to know when entering the work life are challenged by the detailed study of PUBSOL's experience.
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A Phenomenological Case Study: The Law School Environment as Experienced by Academically Dismissed Black and Latina/o Law Students
The legal profession is one of the least diverse in the country and reflects societies’ limits on access to power by certain ethnic groups. The disparate numbers of Black and Latina/o students in law school stems from a history of excluding these groups from legal education, in addition to system …
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Designing a Positive Psychology Course for Lawyers
Legal education is slowly beginning to include not only education in critical thinking and legal knowledge, but also education in complementary qualities of personal conduct and early professional formation. Positive psychology, with its emphasis on the evidence-based study of how people can …
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Mothers in Law: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Mothers in Law School
… are an increasing student population in higher education but an extensively under-researched population. While research examining motherhood is limited, the dearth of studies examining motherhood in higher education is especially limited, with even less available in the legal field and the …
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Evaluating Leadership Development Through Experiential Learning In A Virtual Environment
… of the study is its contribution to leadership education, legal education, and education policies.</p>
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