ABSTRACT
Key Directions in Legal Education identifies and explores key contemporary and emerging themes that are significant and heavily debated within legal education from both UK and international perspectives. It provides a rich comparative dialogue and insights into the current and future directions of legal education.
The book discusses in detail topics including the pressures on law schools exerted by external stakeholders, the fostering of interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration within legal education and the evolution of discourses around teaching and learning legal skills. It elaborates on the continuing development of clinical legal education as a component of the law degree and the emergence and use of innovative technologies within law teaching. The approach of pairing UK and international authors to obtain comparative insights and analysis on a range of key themes is original and provides both a genuine comparative dialogue and a clear international focus.
This book will be of great interest for researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the field of law and legal pedagogy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|31 pages
Legal education and external stakeholders
part II|32 pages
Legal education, interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration
part III|26 pages
Legal education and technology
chapter 6|11 pages
Legal education and legal advocacy in the age of digital technology
part IV|32 pages
Clinical legal education
chapter 8|14 pages
Clinical legal education in the United States
part V|35 pages
Legal education and well-being
chapter 9|17 pages
The wrong message
chapter 10|16 pages
Threshold concepts in law
part VI|40 pages
Legal education and skills