Modernising legal education /
Denvir, Catrina,editor.
"The lawyer of the future will exist as a 'polytechnic' or 'many-skilled' professional, applying their legal expertise to a client's changing world in an increasingly agile way and within a range of organisational settings. For legal educators, there is a need to consider how education can best prepare future lawyers for this reality. The long view suggests that we should be looking to build core skills in legal, design and logic principles rather than learning specific technologies that may be rapidly superseded. But how can we develop these skills, and how we can balance the need to understand core academic principles of law against the need for applied, workplace experience? This chapter looks at the balancing process, focusing on the impact of changing roles in law firms and the demands of the in-house legal and law-advisory-organisation dynamic. It examines how legal education can instil within lawyers, both an understanding of the principles of law alongside an appreciation of the application of those principles in the workplace. It presents a vision of the roles and specialisations that are likely to emerge within the profession, and considers how the future work of lawyers will sit alongside alternative paths into the legal industry"--
Includes bibliographical references.
Do lawyers need to learn to code? : a practitioner perspective on the 'polytechnic' future of legal education / Alexander Smith and Nigel Spencer -- Experiential legal education : stepping back to see the future / Jeff Giddings and Jacqueline Weinberg -- Skills swap? : advising technology entrepreneurs in a student clinical legal education programme / Ian Walden and Patrick Cahill -- Scaling the gap : legal education and data literacy / Catrina Denvir -- Bringing ODR to the legal education mainstream : findings from the field / Genevieve Grant and Esther Lestrell -- Design comes to the law school / Margaret Hagan -- Developing 'NextGen' lawyers through project-based learning / Anna Carpenter -- Same as it ever was? : technology, democracy and the design of discipline-specific digital environments / Paul Maharg -- Ludic legal education from Cicero to Phoenix Wright / Andrew Moshirnia -- The gamification of written problem questions in law : reflections on the 'Serious Games at Westminster' project / Paresh Kathrani -- Virtually teaching ethics : experiencing the discrepancy between abstract ethical stands and actual behaviour using immersive virtual reality / Sylvie Delacroix and Catrina Denvir -- Paths to practice : regulating for innovation in legal education and training / Julie Brannan and Rob Marrs -- 'Complicitous and contestatory' : a critical genre theory approach to reviewing legal education in the global, digital age / Jane Ching and Paul Maharg.
"The lawyer of the future will exist as a 'polytechnic' or 'many-skilled' professional, applying their legal expertise to a client's changing world in an increasingly agile way and within a range of organisational settings. For legal educators, there is a need to consider how education can best prepare future lawyers for this reality. The long view suggests that we should be looking to build core skills in legal, design and logic principles rather than learning specific technologies that may be rapidly superseded. But how can we develop these skills, and how we can balance the need to understand core academic principles of law against the need for applied, workplace experience? This chapter looks at the balancing process, focusing on the impact of changing roles in law firms and the demands of the in-house legal and law-advisory-organisation dynamic. It examines how legal education can instil within lawyers, both an understanding of the principles of law alongside an appreciation of the application of those principles in the workplace. It presents a vision of the roles and specialisations that are likely to emerge within the profession, and considers how the future work of lawyers will sit alongside alternative paths into the legal industry"--
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Modernising legal education