The calling of law : the pivotal role of vocational legal education

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Law Library — 3rd Floor Collection (3rd floor)

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K100 .W47 2014
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Summary

As one of the 'learned' professions requiring advanced learning and high principles, law enjoys a special standing in society. In return for its status and rank, the legal profession is expected to exhibit the highest levels of honesty, trust and morality, the very values which underpin the legal system itself. This, in turn, entrusts to legal education a particular problem of addressing, not only the substantive elements of the body of law, but a means through which the characteristics of the 'calling' of law are imparted and instilled. At a time when the very essence of the legal profession is under threat, this book calls for a realignment of the legal curriculum and pedagogies so as to emphasise the development of culture over industry; character over eloquence; and calling over skill. Chapters are grouped around the core content and key themes of Curiosity, Calling, Character and Conscientiousness, Contract, and Culture. The volume includes contributions from leading experts, drawn internationally and from other professional disciplines in order to present alternative approaches aimed at tackling common issues, providing insight, and provoking debate.

Contents

Professor John Flood, University of Westminster / The global contest for legal education -- Fiona Westwood / Vocational legal education : its pivotal role in the future of the legal profession -- Professor Donald Nicolson, University of Strathclyde / Calling, character, and clinical legal education : inculcating a love for justice from cradle to grave -- Professor Richard Devlin and Jocelyn Downie, Dalhousie University / Public interest vocationalism : a way forward for legal education in Canada -- Professors Richard and Sylvia Cruess, McGill University / Professions and their social contracts : a basis for teaching professionalism : lessons from Medicine -- Professor Sam Leinster, University of East Anglia / Enabling fitness to practice in medical education -- Craig Collins and Suzanne Webbey / Collaboration : a crucible for cultivating common understanding in professional legal education -- Wilson Chow and Michael Ng / Standardized Clients in Asia, University of Hong Kong's experience -- Margie Rowe and Moira Murray, Australia National University / Teaching professionalism online : an Australian professional legal education experience -- Professor John B Garvey, University of New Hampshire and Anne F Zinkin, Law Clerk, Chief Justice of New Hampshire / We must make law students client-ready.

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