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Record Nr.

UNINA9910169191503321

Autore

Evans Adrian

Titolo

Australian clinical legal education : designing and operating a best practice clinical program in an Australian law school / / Adrian Evans [and six others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ANU Press, 2017

Acton, Australia : , : ANU Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-76046-104-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

340.071194

Soggetti

Law - Study and teaching - Australia

Law - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references

Nota di contenuto

List of authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The reason for this book -- 2. Clinics and Australian law schools approaching 2020 -- 3. Australian clinical legal education: Models and definitions -- 4. Course design for clinical teaching -- 5. Teaching social justice in clinics -- 6. The importance of effective supervision -- 7. Reflective practice: The essence of clinical legal education -- 8. Clinical assessment of students’ work -- 9. Resourcing live client clinics -- 10. Australian best practices—a comparison with the  United Kingdom and the United States -- 11. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Clinical legal education (CLE) is potentially the major disruptor of traditional law schools’ core functions. Good CLE challenges many central clichés of conventional learning in law—everything from case book method to the 50-minute lecture. And it can challenge a contemporary overemphasis on screen-based learning, particularly when those screens only provide information and require no interaction. Australian Clinical Legal Education comes out of a thorough research program and offers the essential guidebook for anyone seeking to design and redesign accountable legal education; that is, education that does not just transform the learner, but also inculcates



in future lawyers a compassion for and service of those whom the law ought to serve. Established law teachers will come to grips with the power of clinical method. Law students struggling with overly dry conceptual content will experience the connections between skills, the law and real life. Regulators will look again at law curricula and ask law deans ‘when’?