Transforming the education of lawyers
Subtitle: the theory and practice of clinical pedagogy
By: Susan Bryant, Professor of Law, City University of New York School of Law; Elliott S. Milstein, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law; Ann C. Shalleck, Professor of Law and Carrington Shields Scholar, American University Washington College of Law
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781611634594
Subjects: Law; Study and teaching (Clinical education)
Description: "This book focuses on what and how to teach students about being a lawyer as they take responsibility for clients in a clinical course. The book identifies learning and lawyering theories as well as practical approaches to planning and teaching. It highlights how four clinical methodologies - seminar, rounds, supervision, and fieldwork - reinforce and complement each other. The book illustrates clinical education's transformative potential to create ethical, skilled, thoughtful practitioners imbued with professional values of service to clients and justice. With contributions by veteran and newer clinical educators, the book combines well-developed and innovative conceptual and practical approaches that will help all who teach in experiential lawyering course"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts : clinical methodologies and perspectives / Sue Bryant, Elliott Milstein and Ann Shalleck; title: Learning goals for clinical programs / Susan Bryant, Elliott Milstein and Ann Shalleck; title: The clinical seminar : choosing the content and methods for teaching in the seminar / Susan Bryant & Elliott Milstein; title: Planning and teaching the seminar class / Susan Bryant & Elliott Milstein; title: Seminar essays : judgment-based lawyering: structuring seminar time in a non-litigation clinic / Mark Neal Aaronson; title: Rounds : constructing learning from the experience of peers / Susan Bryant & Elliott Milstein; title: Generating conversations : planning & facilitating rounds / Susan Bryant & Elliott Milstein; title: Rounds essays : the case for structured rounds / Elizabeth B. Cooper; title: Supervision : a conceptual framework / Jane Aiken and Ann Shalleck; title: The practice of supervision / Jane H. Aiken and Ann Shalleck; title: Supervision essays : reflection on supervision in feedback interactions : reinforcement of some fundamental themes / Beryl Blaustone; title: Fieldwork : the experience that sparks the learning / Susan Bryant and Conrad Johnson; title: Design essays the hybrid clinic : bringing the in-house clinic to the field / Claudia Angelos; title: Learning to be a lawyer : embracing indeterminacy and uncertainty / Robert D. Dinerstein and Elliott S. Milstein; title: Reflecting on the habits : teaching about identity, culture, language and difference / Susan Bryant and Jean Koh Peters; title: Talking about race / Jean Koh Peters and Susan Bryant.