Legal Education at the Crossroads: Education and the Legal Profession

ISBN-13: 9780367139186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 134 str.

Avrom Sherr; Richard Moorhead; Hilary Sommerlad

Opis

Legal education faces a "crisis" of uncertainty- how to train the lawyers of the future. This book addresses this question both historically and comparatively providing both facts and understanding to the current problems, and suggesting some possible solutions for the future.

Spis treści

1. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." Reflections on the reform of legal education in the US, UK, and Australia 2. From practical idealism to the ideology of the market: Whitehall, Westminster and higher education 1963–1983 3. Legal education, ethics and access to justice: forging warriors for justice in a neo-liberal world 4. The role of ADR in developing lawyers’ practice: lessons from Australian legal education 5. The LLB as a liberal degree? A re-assessment from an historical perspective 6. Legal education without the law – lay clients as teachers and assessors in communication skills 7. The National Lawyers College of the People’s Republic of China