Reinventing Legal Education

Reinventing Legal Education
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 359
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ISBN-10 : 9781316732069
ISBN-13 : 1316732061
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Reinventing Legal Education by : Alberto Alemanno

European legal teaching - historically formalistic, doctrinal, hierarchical, and passive - is coming under increasing pressure to reimagine itself as pragmatic, policy-aware, and action-oriented. Out of this context, a bottom-up movement of university law clinics appears to be emerging in Europe. Although intellectually indebted to the US model, the European variant reflects legal education and practice in Europe, specifically the multi-layered and multi-genetic legal landscape resulting from the Europeanization and internationalization of national legal systems, the globalization of European legal markets, and the growing demand for civic engagement in view of increasingly powerful supra-national institutions. Through the prism of clinical legal education, Reinventing Legal Education is the first attempt to gather scholarly and systematic reflections on the developments taking place in European legal teaching and practice. This groundbreaking book should be read by anyone interested in how clinical legal education is reinventing legal education in Europe.

Reinventing the Republic

Reinventing the Republic
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:83142816
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Synopsis Reinventing the Republic by : Public Legal Education Workgroup

The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education

The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9781107025615
ISBN-13 : 1107025613
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education by : Richard J. Wilson

Clinical legal education has revolutionized legal education, from its deepest origins in the nineteenth century to its now-global reach.

Law School 2.0

Law School 2.0
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Publisher : LexisNexis/Matthew Bender
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105134430821
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Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Law School 2.0 by : David I. C. Thomson

Legal education is at a crossroads. As a media-saturated generation of students enters law school, they find themselves thrust into a fairly backward mode of instruction, much of which is over 100 years old. Over those years, legal education has resisted many credible reports recommending change, most recently those from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and from the Clinical Legal Education Association. Meanwhile, the cost of legal education continues to skyrocket, with many law students graduating with crushing debt they have difficulty paying back. All of these factors are likely to reach a crescendo in the next few years, setting the stage for a perfect storm out of which can come significant change. But legal education has successfully resisted systemic change for many years. Given that dubious track record, the only way significant change can reasonably be predicted is if something is different this time. Fortunately, there is something different this time: the ubiquity of technology. Since the MacCrate report in 1992, the internet has achieved massive growth, and a generation of students has grown up with sophisticated and pervasive use of technology in nearly every facet of their lives. This book describes how the perfect storm of generational change and the rising cost and criticisms of legal education, combined with extraordinary technological developments, will change the face of legal education as we know it today. Its scope extends from generational changes in our students, to pedagogical shifts inside and outside of the classroom, to hybrid textbooks, all the way to methods of active, interactive, and hypertextual learning. And it describes how this shift can--and will--better prepare law students for the practice of tomorrow.

Reinventing America's Schools

Reinventing America's Schools
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9781632869913
ISBN-13 : 1632869918
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Reinventing America's Schools by : David Osborne

From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.

Reflections on Clinical Legal Education

Reflections on Clinical Legal Education
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Publisher : UPNE
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 1555533396
ISBN-13 : 9781555533397
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Reflections on Clinical Legal Education by : Philip G. Schrag

Influential articles on the evolution of clinical legal education over the past three decades, by members of the founding generation of clinical law professors.

Legal Education in the Global Context

Legal Education in the Global Context
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9781134804740
ISBN-13 : 1134804741
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Legal Education in the Global Context by : Christopher Gane

This book discusses the opportunities and challenges facing legal education in the era of globalization. It identifies the knowledge and skills that law students will require in order to prepare for the practice of tomorrow, and explores pedagogical shifts legal education needs to make inside and outside of the classroom. With contributions from leading experts on legal education from various jurisdictions across the globe, the work combines theoretical depth with practical insights. Seeking to understand the changing landscape of legal education in the era of globalization, the contributions find that law schools can, and must, adopt educational strategies that at least present students with different understandings of what studying and practicing law is meant to be about. They find that law schools need to offer their students choices, a vision of practice that is not driven entirely by the demands of the marketplace or the needs of major international law firms. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book makes a significant contribution to the impact of globalization on legal education, and how students and law schools need to adapt for the future. It will be of great interest to academics and students of comparative legal studies and legal education, as well as policy-makers and practitioners.

Thinking About Clinical Legal Education

Thinking About Clinical Legal Education
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781000452976
ISBN-13 : 1000452972
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Thinking About Clinical Legal Education by : Omar Madhloom

Thinking About Clinical Legal Education provides a range of philosophical and theoretical frameworks that can serve to enrich the teaching and practice of Clinical Legal Education (CLE). CLE has become an increasingly common feature of the curriculum in law schools across the globe. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to the theoretical and philosophical dimensions of this approach. This edited collection seeks to address this gap by bringing together contributions from the clinical community, to analyse their CLE practice using the framework of a clearly articulated philosophical or theoretical approach. Contributions include insights from a range of jurisdictions including: Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Ethiopia, Israel, Spain, UK and the US. This book will be of interest to CLE academics and clinic supervisors, practitioners, and students.

Legal Education in the Digital Age

Legal Education in the Digital Age
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781107012202
ISBN-13 : 1107012201
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Legal Education in the Digital Age by : Edward L. Rubin

This collection of essays by legal scholars explores the digital revolution that has transformed legal education. It discusses the way digital materials will be created and how they will change concepts of authorship as well as methods of production and distribution. The book also explores the impact of digital materials on law school classrooms and law libraries, and the potential transformation of the curriculum that these materials are likely to produce.

Reinventing American Jurisprudence

Reinventing American Jurisprudence
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781793639417
ISBN-13 : 1793639418
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Reinventing American Jurisprudence by : George David Miller

In Reinventing American Jurisprudence: Law through the Lens of Value, George David Miller and Laura Brown unfurl an original approach to value and an imaginative landscape in philosophy of law. Value essentialism identifies value formations such as a sacred cow and scapegoat tandem and the intensification of “oughtness” as it approaches sacred zenith values. Readers learn how Occam’s razor has been responsible for the death of many ideas; how the celebrated Other gains nuance as near and remote; and where a spectral assessment of probability and necessity leads. Analyses of Supreme Court cases grow out in different and exciting directions. Buck was not about eugenics, but another iteration of the value of efficiency and Yo Wick was decided less on law and more on a justice’s finding humanity in Chinese laundry mat proprietors. Lochner involved not an ideological binary but three distinct value schemes. “Separate but equal” was refined as parallelism and exploitative tangents. In Brown, the Fourteenth Amendment took a significant subjective turn. In Heller, the communitarian position of stopping violence before it began could be contrasted with the individualistic position of waiting until you see the whites of their eyes in your bedroom. Citizens United was distilled into the question: was the First Amendment designed to maximize participation or maximize democracy?