Law Reform Clinical Programmes Should Be Promoted in Law Schools: An Explanation

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aut.relation.endpage33
aut.relation.issueSpecial Edition - Policy Clinics Across the Globe: Development, Impact and Collaboration
aut.relation.journalInternational Journal of Clinical Legal Education
aut.relation.startpage6
dc.contributor.authorGledhill, Kris
dc.contributor.authorPalmer, Robin
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T23:26:25Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T23:26:25Z
dc.date.issued2024-06-05
dc.description.abstractThis paper suggests that experiential education involving law reform is particularly suited to the academic stage of legal training. We review the current extent of clinics engaged in law reform, provide examples from our own practice, and then explain why law reform clinics are particularly beneficial. This is for several reasons. These include (i) the range of desirable graduate attributes and skills developed through involvement in law reform; (ii) the understanding that law reform is a career option; and (iii) the benefits to law schools and society generally from better laws, from legal academics using their skills to push for law reform, and from students being introduced to the civic obligation of the legal profession to be involved in seeking to improve the law. We also provide guidance from our own experience as to what can be done to establish a law reform clinic, whether as a dedicated course or as a way of running an existing course, and set out the steps that should produce good suggestions for reform.
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Clinical Legal Education, ISSN: 1467-1069 (Print); 2056-3930 (Online), Northumbria University Library, (Special Edition - Policy Clinics Across the Globe: Development, Impact and Collaboration), 6-33. doi: 10.19164/ijcle.2024.1392
dc.identifier.doi10.19164/ijcle.2024.1392
dc.identifier.issn1467-1069
dc.identifier.issn2056-3930
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17801
dc.publisherNorthumbria University Library
dc.relation.urihttps://www.northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/ijcle/article/view/1392
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2024 Kris Gledhill, Robin Palmer. Creative Commons License. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject4801 Commercial Law
dc.subject4804 Law In Context
dc.subject48 Law and Legal Studies
dc.subject4807 Public Law
dc.subject1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
dc.subject1801 Law
dc.subject4804 Law in context
dc.titleLaw Reform Clinical Programmes Should Be Promoted in Law Schools: An Explanation
dc.typeJournal Article
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