scholarly journals An Examined Life: Research into University Legal Education in the United Kingdom and the Journal of Law and Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. S129-S143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Cownie ◽  
Anthony Bradney
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
The United Kingdom

scholarly journals The Evolution of Legal Education in the United States and the United Kingdom: How one system became more faculty-oriented while the other became more consumer-oriented

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Stuckey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
The United Kingdom

<p>This paper explores how our approaches to preparing lawyers for practice became so different. It traces the evolution of the systems for preparing lawyers for practice in the United Kingdom and the United States, and it examines the relative merits of our current situations. Part I describes the key differences in our systems. Part II recounts major events in the histories of legal education in the United States and the United Kingdom. Part III describes new initiatives in the United Kingdom and the United States that may improve legal education.</p>

Jurisprudence, philosophy and legal education—against foundationalism

Legal Studies ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Hunt
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Philosophical Orientation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future

There are grounds for being optimistic about the future of legal education. Not least of these is that there is emerging a broad alliance, embracing a range of intellectual positions, which is increasingly outspoken in its criticism of the dominant vocationalism which characterises so much legal education. Neil McCormick has recently added his forceful voice to the criticism of the narrow and intellectually barren fetish of ‘learning the rules’ which constitutes the great bulk of the practice of law teaching. The context of MacCormick's advocacy of the virtues of a broad philosophical orientation in legal education was the publication of Barnett and Yach's survey of jurisprudence teaching in the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and Methods

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 1309-1317
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hendry ◽  
Naomi Creutzfeldt ◽  
Christian Boulanger
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Academic Cultures ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThis Special Issue considers the situated and contextualized development of socio-legal, or law and society, scholarship within two materially different legal and academic cultures, namely Germany and the United Kingdom, with a view to achieving a better understanding of why and how such differences in understanding and practice have arisen. The contributions are grouped into three themes. The first reflects upon the influence of institutional contexts and scholarly traditions in terms of the development of those approaches that come under the banner of socio-legal studies. The second features contributions that adopt a comparative perspective in terms of selected areas of law, pointing to notably different approaches taken in Germany and the UK, and considering the development of these respective situations. The third looks at the key contemporary trends, theoretical applications, and methodological approaches taken within both countries’ socio-legal academic contexts.

The province of jurisprudence determined-again!

Legal Studies ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilaire Barnett
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Detailed Questionnaire

This report presents the findings of the survey conducted in 1993/94, this survey being an updated version of one conducted in 1983/94. The present study has been expanded to cover Australian and Canadian (Common Law) universities, and as in previous surveys has been conducted primarily through the medium of a detailed questionnaire.In each of the jurisdictions surveyed there exist parallel concerns about legal education and, of more direct interest here, the role of Jurisprudence and Legal Theory within the law curriculum. By drawing on data received from Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom and the literature on legal education, this article aims to provide a comparative study of the extent to which Jurisprudence features in the academic training of the next generation of lawyers, a large proportion of whom will enter a profession characterised by a shared common law tradition.

scholarly journals Community Projects: Extending the Community Lawyering Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith McNamara ◽  
Catherine Campbell ◽  
Evan Hamman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Curriculum Models ◽  
Local Experience ◽  
Community Projects

Law schools in Australia and the United Kingdom are increasingly adopting clinical legal education (CLE) as an important part of their curriculum.  Models of CLE are emerging in those jurisdictions which draw on local experience and the strong tradition of CLE and community lawyering in the United States. The purpose of this article is to examine the pedagogy that underlies CLE and to consider how it can be applied to newly emerging models of CLE.

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