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Nina A Kohn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • online learning and the future of Legal Education
    Social Science Research Network, 2020
    Co-Authors: Nina A Kohn
    Abstract:

    This article explores the practical and theoretical challenges that online Education poses for law schools and the Legal profession. Drawing in part on contributions to the symposium that it introduces, the article makes the case that that a high-quality Legal Education can be delivered online, that a move toward online Education can spark valuable innovation, and that allowing students to earn their law degrees online can increase access to justice. However, it warns that the fact that high-quality Legal Education can be delivered online does not mean that it will be, and explains that further research is needed to determine what combinations of online elements, or of online and residential elements, are best suited to delivering high-quality Legal Education. It suggests that it will be particularly important to compare live online instruction with asynchronous online instruction because the “radical” move in online Legal Education is not the move to teaching online, but rather the move to teaching asynchronously.

Jan M Smits - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • european Legal Education or how to prepare students for global citizenship
    The Law Teacher, 2011
    Co-Authors: Jan M Smits
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    Legal Education is gradually moving away from the teaching of national law towards a more European, transnational, or even “global” way of teaching. This paper seeks to explain why an international Legal Education is to be preferred to a national curriculum and what this means for how law is taught and how law schools are ideally organised. The arguments for an international Legal Education lie in the increasing plurality of Legal sources, the desire to attract students from a larger pool, and the need not only to give students a specialised professional training but also to prepare them for global citizenship. It is claimed students should be exposed to alternative ways of achieving justice, thus creating a dialogue with otherness. This can be done by a focus on the arguments behind the choices made by the relevant authorities and not on the doctrinal intricacies of national Legal systems. This type of international curriculum, in which competing conceptions of justice are at the centre of attention, req...

  • european Legal Education or how to prepare students for global citizenship
    Social Science Research Network, 2010
    Co-Authors: Jan M Smits
    Abstract:

    Legal Education is gradually moving away from the teaching of national law towards a more European, transnational, or even ‘global’ way of teaching. This paper seeks to explain why an international Legal Education is to be preferred to a national curriculum and what this means for how law is taught and how law schools are ideally organised. The arguments for an international Legal Education lie in the increasing plurality of Legal sources, the desire to attract students from a larger pool, and the need to give students not only a specialised professional training but also to prepare them for global citizenship. It is claimed students should be exposed to alternative ways of achieving justice, thus creating a dialogue with otherness. This can be done by a focus on the arguments behind the choices made by the relevant authorities and not on the doctrinal intricacies of national Legal systems. This type of international curriculum, in which competing conceptions of justice are at the centre of attention, requires a specific teaching method. Two methods seem best suited to allow students to construct their own understanding of Legal problems: problem-based learning (PBL) and the Socratic method. In addition, teaching law in an international setting forces us to think through the sequence in which the various jurisdictions come to the fore, the assessment of students and the use of teaching materials and language of instruction. Also discussed are the challenges for the law school as a whole, such as the relationship between teaching and research, the recruitment of faculty and the decreasing relevance of the traditional departmental structure.

Steven J Hoffman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • student perspectives on Legal Education a longitudinal empirical evaluation
    Social Science Research Network, 2012
    Co-Authors: Cassandra Ms Florio, Steven J Hoffman
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    Few empirical evaluations of the student experience in Legal Education have been undertaken, which limits the data available to inform law school decision-making. An empirical evaluation and literature review was conducted to measure students' perspectives on their law school experience at the University of Toronto. Both a quantitative and qualitative analysis was undertaken. Findings suggested that students were overall satisfied with their overall academic experience, quality of teaching, quality of student life, and transition to law school. Multiple linear regressions highlighted significant predictors of happiness in attending the University of Toronto such as the year of study, parental income, quality of life etc. and the sense of community, and satisfaction with the transition to law school. While much of the literature in this area suggests that gender plays a huge role in the student experience, this study suggests it only has a noticeable impact on students’ transition to law school. This study highlights the potential value of empirical research for improving Legal Education globally, and provides interesting data that can be adapted to inform reform efforts at other law schools.

Alex Steel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • towards a taxonomy of Legal Education research
    Social Science Research Network, 2020
    Co-Authors: Kathrine Galloway, Melissa Castan, Alex Steel
    Abstract:

    This chapter develops a taxonomy of scholarship in Legal Education through examination of research papers published in a sample of Australian journals between 2006–2017. The taxonomy is designed to make explicit the methods, approaches, and purposes of Legal Education scholarship as a reflection of the intersection of scholars’ discipline practices in both law and Education, as both teachers and as researchers, as both lawyers and teachers. Through description and theorization of Legal Education research, it substantiates the contribution of SoLE to the Legal academy, and to law and Legal practice, within an explicit research framework.

  • towards a taxonomy of Legal Education research
    Research in Legal Education Conference: State of the Art?, 2020
    Co-Authors: Kathrine Galloway, Melissa Castan, Alex Steel
    Abstract:

    The nature of Legal research is the subject of much discussion. Yet there is far less attention given to the place of Legal Education scholarship within the field of Legal research more broadly. In this chapter, we make the claim that Legal Educational research might be regarded as an interdisciplinary contribution to Legal research, and we embark on a project to recognise and chart the diversity of the scholarship of Legal Education. In doing so, we develop the first iteration of a taxonomy designed to make explicit the methods, approaches, purposes, and subjects of the scholarship of Legal Education as a reflection of the intersection of scholars’ discipline practices in both law and Education, as both teachers and as researchers, as both lawyers and academics. Through description and theorization of Legal Education research by way of a taxonomy, we seek to substantiate the contribution of scholarship of Legal Education to the Legal academy, and to law and Legal practice, within an explicit research framework.

  • Learning to feel like a lawyer: Law teachers, sessional teaching and emotional labour in Legal Education
    Griffith Law Review, 2017
    Co-Authors: Mary Heath, Alex Steel, Kate Galloway, Natalie Skead, Mark Israel
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    Contemporary higher Education, including Legal Education, incorporates complexities that were not identified even a decade ago. Law programs first moved from traditional content-focussed programs t...

Pearl Goldman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Legal Education and technology ii an annotated bibliography
    Social Science Research Network, 2009
    Co-Authors: Pearl Goldman
    Abstract:

    The digital revolution in Legal Education has engendered a large body of scholarship. To help Legal educators locate materials that inform and enrich their teaching and writing, Professor Goldman offers an updated annotated bibliography of articles, commentaries, conference papers, essays, books, and book chapters that examine the impact of technology on Legal Education.

  • Legal Education and technology ii an annotated bibliography
    Law Library Journal, 2008
    Co-Authors: Pearl Goldman
    Abstract:

    Just as technology has revolutionized the way law is practiced, it increasingly has found its way into Legal Education in a variety of ways. This digital revolution in the way law is taught has engendered a large body of scholarship. To help Legal educators locate materials that inform and enrich their teaching, Professor Goldman offers an annotated bibliography of articles that examine the impact of computer technology on law schools and Legal Education.