ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the prospects for Australian legal education following what can be described as the boom for Australian law schools since changes to higher education regulation in the late-1980s. It seeks to explain the context for the changes made to Australian legal education over the past quarter century. The chapter considers the changes now needed to enable legal education to satisfy various interested parties. It argues for a comprehensive and integrated approach to the use of experiential learning methods and for a more cooperative approach to developing a coherent legal education framework. The chapter also considers the need for a more coherent framework to underpin and integrate the various stages of Australian legal education and then addresses the implications of the dramatic recent changes in the legal education landscape – in terms of law schools and law students. It focuses on the changes needed to enhance legal education and the relationships that underpin a model legal profession.
