Modernising Legal Education

Cambridge University Press, 1/9/2020
EAN 9781108475754, ISBN10: 1108475752

Hardcover, 280 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Over the last decade, cost pressures, technology, automation, globalisation, de-regulation, and changing client relationships have transformed the practice of law, but legal education has been slow to respond. Deciding what learning objectives a law degree ought to prioritise, and how to best strike the balance between vocational and academic training, are questions of growing importance for students, regulators, educators, and the legal profession. This collection provides a range of perspectives on the suite of skills required by the future lawyer and the various approaches to supporting their acquisition. Contributions report on a variety of curriculum initiatives, including role-play, gamification, virtual reality, project-based learning, design thinking, data analytics, clinical legal education, apprenticeships, experiential learning and regulatory reform, and in doing so, offer a vision of what modern legal education might look like.

Foreword Julian Webb
Introduction Catrina Denvir
1. Do lawyers need to learn to code? A practitioner perspective on the 'poly-technic' future of legal education Alexander Smith and Nigel Spencer
2. Experiential legal education
stepping back to see the future Jeff Giddings and Jacqueline Weinberg
3. Skills swap? Advising technology entrepreneurs in a student clinical legal education program Ian Walden and Patrick Cahill
4. Scaling the gap
legal education and data literacy Catrina Denvir
5. Bringing ODR to the legal education mainstream
findings from the field Genevieve Grant and Esther Lestrell
6. Design comes to the law school Margaret Hagan
7. Developing 'nextgen' lawyers through project-based learning Anna Carpenter
8. Same as it ever was? Technocracy, democracy and the design of discipline-specific digital environments Paul Maharg
9. Ludic legal education from Cicero to Phoenix Wright Andrew Moshirnia
10. The gamification of written problem questions in law
reflections on the 'serious games at Westminster' project Paresh Kathrani
11. Virtually teaching ethics
experiencing the discrepancy between abstract ethical stands and actual behaviour using immersive virtual reality Sylvie Delacroix and Catrina Denvir
12. Paths to practice
regulating for innovation in legal education and training Julie Brannan and Rob Marrs
13. 'Complicitous and contestatory'
a critical genre theory approach to reviewing legal education in the global, digital age Jane Ching and Paul Maharg
Afterword
Index.