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Life in the legal academy: what's different and important about being a law professor?
American legal education innovations – clinical education, feminism, socio-legal studies, legal ethics, law and literature and alternative dispute resolution – Carrie focused on the s…
Making choices about lawyers' ethics: integrating an ethical dimension into a simulation
University) describe the teaching of ethics on a clinic-based module, based on a simulation exercise involving students in making an ethical choice. Those who teach lawyers’ ethics on underg…
Clinical legal education and extracurricular law clinic
Strathclyde) advocates an extracurricular form of clinic, aimed at providing legal assistance rather than educating students, as a cost effective way of expanding clinical legal education. The bene…
Innocence projects: a perfect solution for clinical legal education?
outline the potential role of such projects in clinical legal education and describe the work of the Innocence Network UK. Over the last decade a growing number of institutions have recognised the…
Law students in the community
purposes. The option of setting up an in-house clinic was not available for resource reasons, although European and Legal Services Commission funding in partnership with a citizens advice bureau co…
Introducing legal clinics in Olomouc: the application of common law clinical models in a civil law system
Conference 2007 they describe the design of a clinical programme, drawing inspiration from clinics operating in common law systems. The common law experience could not always be simply transferred in…
Clinical legal education stream
in Law Annual Conference 2007 included a clinical legal education stream, organised by the relaunched Clinical Legal Education Assocation (CLEA). The stream included the following papers: Model…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
onto the module students have to complete a clinic induction/training week, combining written and oral presentation with videoed role play and group discussion. This induction aims to provide the stu…
Multicultural clinical experience
interesting debate. Students working in the clinic need to be trained to understand the dynamics of working with clients. This initial training takes the form of ethics workshops, where students h…
Law in Action: integrating social justice issues into the curriculum using clinical legal education
staff experiences on the first year of a new clinical legal education module at Keele School of Law. Rosie and Andrew’s slides are embedded below. Note: the research that forms the basis of…
Can the traditional law curriculum be delivered via clinical and experiential learning?
discussion forum exploring the viability of clinical and experiential methodology playing a more prominent role in the delivery of the core law curriculum and the development of general and intellect…
In the looking glass: reflection on past experience as a key to the future
year developing their legal skills in a clinical environment dealing with real clients under supervision, giving them a taster of the sometimes Alice in Wonderland world of lawyering. Their pre-exist…
Active learning in law schools: the community dimension
involvement in real casework? How can clinical initiatives be effectively resourced and developed in an educational context? How can professional standards be met? What has been the experienc…
Moving on: new initiatives, new resources
had been on the setting up and running of clinics. This year, reflecting the changing nature of the delivery of legal services, the CLEO conference took, as its starting point, the development o…
Putting ethics into practice: scenarios
In their paper, Putting ethics into practice, presented at Vocational Teachers Forum V, Sara Chandler and Pamela Robotham outlined a pilot programme of ethics teaching carried out in the Legal Advice…
Putting ethics into practice: recognising the issues
In their paper, Putting ethics into practice, presented at Vocational Teachers Forum V Sara Chandler and Pamela Robotham outlined a pilot programme of ethics teaching carried out in the Legal Advice …
Using narrative and clinical approaches to teach ethics
Montfort University) discusses the use of clinic and narrative as teaching methods for legal ethics, highlighting the potential outcomes for students through reflection. A number of arguments are…
The Tao of Professionalism
permission to include her paper here. Clinics provide an outstanding atmosphere for teaching professional values. To do this successfully the clinic must be designed to encourage the student to co…
Mapping best practice in clinical legal education
hughbrayne@btinternet.com) Project summary: guide to clinical legal education programmes in the UK (pilot study) Completion date: October 2004 UKCLE funding: £5,000 The purpose of this projec…
Clinical legal education
Clinical legal education plays an increasingly important role within UK law schools. This page lists some key resources and includes contact details for CLEO, the Clinical Legal Education Organisatio…
Designing and delivering clinical legal education
delivery decisions associated with developing clinical programmes, organised around a set of 10 frequently asked questions (FAQs) exploring: the advantages in general ascribed to clinical metho…
Law schools and pro bono work: the public service and educational potential
Grimes (Director of Pro Bono Services and Clinical Education at the College of Law) to the Attorney General’s Pro Bono Committee in February 2003, is intended as a starting point for discussion…
Reflection in legal clinic
Grimes (College of Law) outlining how legal clinics may be used to provide an opportunity for reflection. Aims To offer students an opportunity to put the theory of law into practice by placin…
Setting up a live client clinic: a checklist
outcomes What are the goals of the proposed clinic? Where does it fit into and contribute to the curriculum? What are the intended learning outcomes derived from those goals? What type of clinic…
What is clinical legal education?
Clinical legal education (CLE) has been a significant part of legal education since the 1960s, when it became a mainstream endeavour in US law schools. The first UK clinics emerged in the 1970s,…
Further reading on clinical legal education
Weblinks Clinical Legal Education Association (USA) – extensive site with newsletters, clinical directors listserv, abstracts for the Clinical Law Review and more Clinical Legal Educatio…
Putting ethics into practice
to discuss the teaching of ethics in the clinical environment, and in particular in the Legal Advice Centre at the College of Law, London, evaluating a pilot programme of ethics teaching carried out …
Philip Plowden - National Teaching Fellow
Chair of the NTFS Advisory Panel) The clinical assessment project My project will be looking at the ways in which we assess the clinical learning components which are now becoming increasingly co…
Making it happen: starting, sustaining and growing a law clinic
Montfort University) reports on the 2006 Clinical Legal Education Organisation (CLEO) conference held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London on 14 July 2006. With the support of UKCL…
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