Sentences with phrase «legal education crisis»

Could changing the law school accreditation requirements solve the legal education crisis?

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«The NSCIA demands that the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Justice, call the Council for Legal Education and the Nigerian Law School to order so that they will not stoke religious crisis in the country.

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.

Every law school has to answer these questions one way or another, and events of the last few years — the crises of American legal education and Canadian articling, and global and technological shifts in the legal services market — have given them greater urgency.

The challenges facing legal education in the 2010s are not as dire or dramatic as those the crew and NASA confronted during the Apollo 13 mission crisis.

This blog is an effort to celebrate extraordinary innovations in legal education; most, but not all, of the innovations are ones that have been implemented during what all agree is a crisis in legal education.

My Dean, Bruce Feldthusen, has written an article for Canadian Lawyer in response to criticisms in the legal profession about legal education and allegations that we are responsible for creating the perceived articling crisis in Ontario.

The so - called crisis of confidence in legal education is not about law school fraud; it is about misinformed expectations.

Ohio State University law professor Deborah Merritt's blog takes the crises in legal education and the legal profession head - on — declining law school enrollment, heavy debt loads for law school graduates, fewer lawyer jobs — and explores what the legal academy can be doing about it.

I do not have, nor will I ever claim to have, all the solutions to the growing crisis with regard to legal education and the problems law students are having finding work after graduating.

Part of it is also because of the 2008 financial crisis, but it's also largely because of changes in our legal education itself — growing class sizes, new law schools, and more international law students (many of whom are Canadian studying abroad).

In our first season, we covered topics from Islamophobia to legal education, Harvey Weinstein to diversity in the Bar — and of course, we heard from self - represented litigants and explored issues related to the A2J crisis.

MISSION: To empower our clients during crisis through strong legal representation, understanding, motivation, education and strategizing for their goals.

The Foundation is currently focused on the access to justice crisis; legal education — and more specifically the delta between academic training and market readiness; and how to harness technology to improve legal access and delivery, especially in the «retail» market segment.

This partnership between Newfoundland and Labrador's only public legal education organization and sexual assault crisis centre is the first of its kind in Canada.

At a time when new law schools are opening in Canada, and some schools have increased their enrollment, the reason for the reduction in the class size as stated by Hastings» Dean is very interesting and timely given the New York Times declaration last November that «legal education is in crisis ``,... [more]

The Committee on Diversity in Clinical Legal Education is tasked with proposing ways to reverse the diversity crisis within clinical legal educaLegal Education is tasked with proposing ways to reverse the diversity crisis within clinical legal eEducation is tasked with proposing ways to reverse the diversity crisis within clinical legal educalegal educationeducation.

The access to justice crisis we face in our country is the inevitable outcome of failed policies, institutions, and bureaucracies spanning beyond the legal domain - including housing, education, healthcare, and employment.

Indeed, changing legal education — competencies required from Law Societies, the articling process changing in Ontario, and the access to justice crisis, as well as internal pressures coming from students interested in experiential opportunities and faculty - based self - critiques of traditional pedagogies within legal education have led to may changes within legal education.

At a time when new law schools are opening in Canada, and some schools have increased their enrollment, the reason for the reduction in the class size as stated by Hastings» Dean is very interesting and timely given the New York Times declaration last November that «legal education is in crisis ``, and SLAW's own Omar Ha Redeye's excellent commentary on the market and career prospects for new lawyers here last week.

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The center provides a 24 - hour crisis line; individual counseling, crisis counseling, and group support for victims; emergency food, clothing and transportation; legal assistance and accompaniment; a safe house; hospital and court accompaniment and advocacy; information and referrals; community education; school prevention programs; and training for volunteers.

Today Promise Place has an office in each of the 4 counties in the judicial circuit and provides services to over 3,000 individuals per year through emergency shelter, a 24 hr emergency hotline, legal advocacy, weekly support groups, relocation assistance, financial assistance, crisis counseling, safety planning, a teen dating violence prevention program in all area high schools, follow up services and community education.