Legal Profession

Contemporary Challenges in Clinical Legal Education: Role, Function and Future Directions

Edited by Matthew Atkinson · Ben Livings
Routledge August 2023

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ISBN-13
9781032515137
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
August 2023
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This edited book addresses contemporary challenges in Clinical Legal Education (CLE), considering its role in legal education and in the broader community that it serves.

Written by experts from various international contexts, the book explores how the changing nature and requirements of legal practice alongside social and technological developments affect the pedagogy of Clinical Legal Education. Chapters chart the development of Clinical Legal Education across various jurisdictions and examine developments in program design and supervision of and in CLE along with the role of CLE in the community. The authors also reflect on the dynamic and developing role of Clinical Legal Education and offer recommendations for the future.

This book will be essential reading for academics, researchers in clinical legal education and those interested in legal education across the world. It will also be of interest to students of clinical legal education whose research requires a deeper understanding of the current themes and issues of the subject.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Matthew Atkinson and Ben Livings
2. Clinic for All: Implementing a Clinical Guarantee
Jeff Giddings
3. Supporting Reflective Practice and Writing in Clinical Legal Education in a Digital Technological Era
Matthew Atkinson and Margaret Castles
4. Clinic is a Constructivist, Inquiry-Based Learning Environment. Lessons for the start of Law School – Re-imagining an Immersive Induction
Jonny Hall and Neil Gold
5. An Estate and Disability Planning Clinic: Teaching Transactional Drafting to Harness Strengths and Effectuate Choice
Spencer Rand
6. Reflection, Self-Awareness and Cultural Competency as a Foundational Pedagogy for Clinical Legal Education
Rachel Spencer
7. Preventing Vicarious Trauma and Encouraging Self-Care in Clinical Legal Teaching
Sarah Katz and Deeya Haldar
8. The Emotional Impact of Law Clinic Supervision: An Autoethnography
Elaine Gregerson
9. Policy Clinic as a method to engage students with law reform and social justice: Experiences from Northumbria Law School’s Student Law Office
Rachel Dunn, Lyndsey Bengtsson, Tamsin Nelson and Helen Rutherford
10. Clinical Legal Education and Law Reform
Robin Palmer and Kris Gledhill
11. Teaching in Community
Susan Brooks and Rachel Lopez
12. How Working with Entrepreneurs Makes Law Students into Happier, Healthier Lawyers
Michael Murphy
13. Clinic – Fit for practice?
Stephen Levett
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