1st Edition
Re-thinking Legal Education under the Civil and Common Law A Road Map for Constructive Change
Foreword Neil Gold
Opening thoughts Richard Grimes
A. Context and concepts
Introduction
1. Celebrating the difference - A U.S. educator’s perspective on legal education under the civil and common law Philip M. Genty
2. Experiential learning from the continental viewpoint: if the cap fits….. Cristina Amato
3. Experiential learning: just for ‘common lawyers’ - really? Richard Grimes and Anne-Lise Sibony
B. Content and careers
Introduction
4. Re-thinking the learning and teaching:
4.1. A case study from York Richard Hedlund
4.2. Clinic, employability, and educational need Meredith Daniel
4.3. Don’t talk at me, talk to me Tanya Walker
4.4. Shared potential despite the difference? David Roccaro
5. Ethics and professional responsibility
5.1. Teaching and learning legal ethics: what, how and why? Donald Nicolson
5.2. Teaching legal ethics under the civil law Jose Garcia Anon
5.3. Ethics, professionalism and the law Laura Bugatti
6. Regulation – universities, the legal profession and other employers
6.1. Of tribes and territories – an employer and regulator perspective on re-thinking legal education Chris Maguire
6.2. Degree apprenticeships – a way forward? Stephen Levett
7. Assessment in legal education: qualification or quantification? Jenny Gibbons
C. Case studies and countries: examples of re-thinking
Introduction
8. Birth, growth and reproduction of clinical legal education in Spain Pilar Fernández-Artiach, Jose García-Añón and Ruth M. Mestre i Mestre
9. Re-thinking legal education in Central and Eastern Europe Luba Krasnitskaya, Katarzyna Furman, Michal Urban
10. The same but different: What can we learn from Canadian attitudes to legal education? Sue Prince
11. The civil law tradition …but with clinics – a case study from Chile Juan P. Beca
12. Making a real change: legal education in Nigeria – partly re-imagined? Ernest Ojukwu
13. An agenda for Indian legal education Shuvro Prosun Sarker
14. Beyond the boom: prospects for Australian legal education Jeff Giddings
15. Re-thinking at the sharp end – examples of experiential teaching and learning practice
15.1. Mock-trials in an accusatorial and inquisitorial context David McQuoid-Mason
15.2. Teaching EU law in an experiential way Katarzyna Gromek-Broc
Final words Richard Grimes
Biography
Richard Grimes is a senior consultant with Les Deux Ltd, a training and development service specialising in access to justice and legal education.
‘This new contribution to the debate on legal education in general and experiential legal education in particular is all the more valuable because it spans both the common law and civil law world; the latter being too often neglected in previous literature.’ - Anthony Bradney, Professor of Law, Keele University, UK.
