1st Edition
Contemporary Challenges in Clinical Legal Education Role, Function and Future Directions
This edited book addresses contemporary challenges in clinical legal education (CLE), considering its role in legal education and in the broader community 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 programme 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.
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 Deeya Haldar and Sarah Katz 8. The Emotional Impact of Law Clinic Supervision: An Autoethnography Elaine Gregersen 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 Rachel E. López and Susan L. Brooks 12. How Working with Entrepreneurs Makes Law Students into Happier, Healthier Lawyers Michael Murphy 13. Clinic – Fit for Practice? Stephen Levett 14. Emerging Themes in CLE Pedagogy: Where to Next? Matthew Atkinson and Ben Livings
Biography
Matthew Atkinson is Senior Lecturer and Managing Solicitor of the Legal Advice Clinic, University of South Australia, Australia.
Ben Livings is Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Evidence, University of South Australia, Australia.
