Sentences with phrase «legal education contexts»

It is crucial then to acknowledge dominant discourses about emotions within legal education contexts and to engage students in a process of analyzing the ways in which these dominant understandings work to «discipline» and constitute their feelings.

Because of the dominant negative approach to overt expressions of emotions in legal education contexts, many law students may understand reactions of moral outrage as being upsetting, unprofessional, and «outside» the bounds of the legal realm in which they are operating.

What is required is an ability to critically interpret and «read» our emotional responses in clinical legal education contexts and an understanding that our feelings always involve interpretation.

Not exact matches

It offers current and authoritative information on legal issues facing schools within the context of state and federal education law.

The essays in this volume represent the work of the leading scholars of affirmative action in higher education, and place the current crisis on campus in its larger context of historical discrimination and the legal battle for educational equity.

At a meeting for education organizations that was webcast last week, David Sapp, deputy policy director and assistant legal counsel for the State Board of Education, acknowledged that federal reviewers» questions and doubts had led staff to provide «more context» to the state's «minimalist» approach to writing education organizations that was webcast last week, David Sapp, deputy policy director and assistant legal counsel for the State Board of Education, acknowledged that federal reviewers» questions and doubts had led staff to provide «more context» to the state's «minimalist» approach to writing Education, acknowledged that federal reviewers» questions and doubts had led staff to provide «more context» to the state's «minimalist» approach to writing the plan.

Beginning with a comprehensive overview of inclusive education, this book provides a context for discussions of theoretical and practical aspects: planning, implementing, and evaluating inclusive education; financial and legal concerns; family partnerships; interagency collaboration; and staff developmental activities.

This experience came in a number of different areas of law including intellectual property, while also giving me insight on the importance of legal knowledge and education in an in house context.

Best Practices for Legal Education, published by the Clinical Legal Education Association fifteen years later, in 2007, essentially reiterated the message of the MacCrate Report.57 Best Practices argued that to become effective practicing lawyers, students must have opportunities during law school to engage in legal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educaLegal Education, published by the Clinical Legal Education Association fifteen years later, in 2007, essentially reiterated the message of the MacCrate Report.57 Best Practices argued that to become effective practicing lawyers, students must have opportunities during law school to engage in legal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal eEducation, published by the Clinical Legal Education Association fifteen years later, in 2007, essentially reiterated the message of the MacCrate Report.57 Best Practices argued that to become effective practicing lawyers, students must have opportunities during law school to engage in legal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educaLegal Education Association fifteen years later, in 2007, essentially reiterated the message of the MacCrate Report.57 Best Practices argued that to become effective practicing lawyers, students must have opportunities during law school to engage in legal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal eEducation Association fifteen years later, in 2007, essentially reiterated the message of the MacCrate Report.57 Best Practices argued that to become effective practicing lawyers, students must have opportunities during law school to engage in legal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educalegal problem - solving activities, either in hypothetical situations or real legal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educalegal contexts.58 The MacCrate Report set out principles law schools should apply to achieve excellence in legal educalegal educationeducation.

By integrating writing and doctrine in the first semester, we are sending a message to our students, at outset of their legal education, that there is no real divide between analyzing legal doctrine and the writing that communicates that analysis.54 By writing within a doctrinal context, students are able to see the ways in which the law and how it is structured influence their writing choices.55 Moreover, students tend to develop a deeper understanding of the connected doctrinal course because of the writing that occurs in that doctrinal area.56 Thus a number of the benefits that result from integrating the two courses arise from the synergies that come from teaching both courses together.57 What follows are some specific synergies that I have observed in teaching the integrated LA&W and Introduction to Torts courses.

In this context, exposing students to a mediation simulation early in their legal education can help achieve this goal.

The Report's central conclusion is that, although traditional legal pedagogy is very effective in certain aspects, it overemphasizes legal theory and underemphasizes practical skills and professional development.5 By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.10

In my own research on legal education, I demonstrated that a key shortcoming of the traditional intellectual apprenticeship lies precisely when students start to think about the contexts of law cases in complicated ways.

Without the overall context that a legal education provides, knowing what issues you should be looking for is difficult or impossible, and this is particular true in Anglo - American common law systems, where the law is embedded in an opaque network of appellate cases rather than laid out more or less completely in a carefully organized statute.

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The Circles of Learning Indigenous Awareness Workshops are a new offering by Portage College Public Legal Education Program and are aimed at creating safe learning environments for participants to gain understanding of the historical and contemporary contexts of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

The first Part of the study situates the discussion about access to legal education in a historical context by outlining the existing financial accessibility and inclusion models.

A free CJER Online Course by the California Center for Judicial Education and Research uses a simulation format to provide legal and tactical information about handling hardship, cause, and peremptory challenges with prospective jurors in the context of a felony trial.

In this context, Dr Denvir acknowledges a general need in legal education in which Belfast may be well placed to provide a lead, «We have a responsibility to prepare students for a career in a new form.

(b) Increase awareness of the social implications of laws and policies and ensure that legal education is situated within a social context;

We expect our articling students to continue their formal education within the context of the law firm environment, and to become exposed to the widest possible range of legal subject matters, various alternatives for dispute resolution, appropriate business practices, and ethical standards.

While you may provide these services to an employer (including the government), or use your legal skills in a non-practising context (like education), you can not carry on the private practice of law.

Education encompasses a broad variety of topics, including education on legal and jurisdictional issues, an understanding of the role of a judicial officer, ethical issues impacting on judicial conduct, the development of specific skills necessary to perform the functions of a justice of the peace, and the development of an awareness of social and cultural context in which social issues and challenges may arise and manifest themselves in judicial proEducation encompasses a broad variety of topics, including education on legal and jurisdictional issues, an understanding of the role of a judicial officer, ethical issues impacting on judicial conduct, the development of specific skills necessary to perform the functions of a justice of the peace, and the development of an awareness of social and cultural context in which social issues and challenges may arise and manifest themselves in judicial proeducation on legal and jurisdictional issues, an understanding of the role of a judicial officer, ethical issues impacting on judicial conduct, the development of specific skills necessary to perform the functions of a justice of the peace, and the development of an awareness of social and cultural context in which social issues and challenges may arise and manifest themselves in judicial proceedings.

As noted in the Factum of the Intervener of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), the accused had been convicted of assaulting the complainant on two previous occasions, and as noted by the trial judge, the complainant's recantation on the issue of consent was typical of a domestic violence context (at para. 2).

The symposium articles conclude with a short, fun piece from Sheila Simon, showing us how banjo lessons — and learning in context — can improve legal education.

The second is a Ph.D. in Higher Education that introduced me to the much larger theoretical and regulatory context in which legal educatioEducation that introduced me to the much larger theoretical and regulatory context in which legal educationeducation occurs.

Prescribing to a Catholic school how to explain Catholicism to its students seriously interferes with freedom of religion, while representing no significant benefit to the Ethics & Religious Culture Program's objectives; and in the Québec context, where private denominational schools are legal, represents a disproportionate, and therefore unreasonable interference with the values underlying freedom of religion of those individuals who seek to offer and who wish to receive a Catholic education.

She has a broad understanding of the changing contexts of legal education and law schools, and is deeply committed to seizing the opportunity before the Schulich School of Law to take the lead in curriculum reform, to increase its scholarly impact, to cultivate the professional legal community and to encourage students to work in the public interest.

That report discusses legal education in the Canadian context and makes recommendations on what law schools should be doing in the future.

Integrating clinic work is a valuable tool to enhance traditional legal education as it gives the students context.

(Something that legal education largely ignores in that specific context.)

When these issues are raised in the context of law students and legal education, I have to laugh.

Where the latter is a broad survey of the law governing decision making for children and the relationship between parents and the state that arises in that context, this seminar focuses in on the three areas of the law that tend to generate the most cultural and legal controversy: education, religion, and maltreatment.

We CAN help you learn about - in a neutral setting and in the context of mutual education - legal rights, issues and options.

Programs of this nature are an important means of strengthening the capacity of Indigenous workers to expand the education and understanding among Indigenous communities of the legal contexts of family violence.