1st Edition
Public Legal Education The Role of Law Schools in Building a More Legally Literate Society
1.Background and Context 2.Delivering PLE: Part 1 3.Delivering PLE: Part 2 4.Incorporating PLE into the law school 5.Evaluating PLE 6.Conclusions: just don’t take my word for it! Appendix – a PLE case study
Biography
Richard Grimes qualified as a solicitor in 1977 and worked initially in a law centre and later as a full-equity partner for a provisional law firm, handling, principally, publicly funded cases. He has since worked in a number of universities in the United Kingdom and overseas and, for the last 25 years, has devoted his time to developing experiential means of learning about law and the legal system, which focus on the application of theory to practice, in both civil and common law jurisdictions. He is now a visiting professor at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic where he leads the LLM in Experiential Learning and Teaching and is an independent legal education consultant. Richard has published widely on how we may improve how legal education is designed, delivered and evaluated and remains committed to improving access to justice more generally.
