{"title":"Enhancing Employability through Student Engagement in Pro Bono Projects","authors":"S. Blandy","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.821","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the findings of a survey carried out by the School of Law at the University of Sheffield, placing it in the context of international research on links between student participation in pro bono projects, and employability. The aim of this survey was to establish whether students’ pro bono experiences assist them in obtaining training and employment. Over the summer of 2016 a survey was sent to current students and to alumni who were (or had been) volunteering at one of the two longest-established pro bono projects run by the School of Law. The paper explains how the survey was designed, conducted and analysed, and discusses the methodological issues which arose. Although the original aims of the research were not achieved, and perhaps could never have been, the responses to the surveys yielded very useful and rich data. No direct questions were asked about skills development, but the respondents’ unanticipated and unsolicited qualitative comments can be positively mapped onto the key skills and attributes that constitute ‘employability’. The findings set out here therefore add to the small amount of existing literature about student perceptions of how their experiences as pro bono volunteers assist them through placement, training and employment application processes.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"271 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77576346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From 'Paradise' to Pragmatism: Reflections on a Visit to York Law School from the Perspective of a Large, Traditional, Continental Law School","authors":"M. Urban","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.828","url":null,"abstract":"Michal Urban describes the work of York Law School and reflects on its success in implementing an intellectually robust yet practical curriculum.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85803831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission","authors":"Paul Dargue","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.830","url":null,"abstract":"by Carolyn Hoyle, and Mai Sato (Oxford University Press), 2019, 383pp, £75.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-19-879457-8","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72963284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolving Jurisprudence in Clinical Legal Education - A Contemporary Study in Theory and Practice","authors":"K. Akuffo","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.822","url":null,"abstract":"In concept and practice, clinical legal education is widely affirmed by its global success. As R.J. Wilson puts it, clinical legal education is an “…ongoing and growing revolution that is assaulting the deepest traditions of the legal academy.” It is also asserted by others that “the trend across the globe has shifted from traditional legal education to justice education which is inspired by justice education campaigns.” This success is however marked by the absence of a coherent and articulate jurisprudence that unifies the essence of clinical legal education. This may be largely due to the sheer diversity of forms, conceptualisations and justifications of what has become a movement in recent decades. This globalised movement presents as a complexity of diverse thinking and practice. Nevertheless, upon careful examination, it becomes evident that there are many unifying strands of thinking underpinning clinical legal education that make it possible to theorise clinical legal education whether as pedagogy or legal philosophy. The ambition of this article therefore is to seek to give jurisprudential expression to clinical legal education as an articulate but integral category of legal philosophy. The author will draw on a unique clinical project based in the London Borough of Ealing that has successfully partnered the local law school and the principal human rights and equalities body in the borough to create the Community Advice Programme (CAP) as a substantial expression of the essence of clinical legal education in a modern globalised world. The essay will firstly offer a brief contemporary contextual framework of analysis which reveals a significant level of intersectionality in many parts of the world between clinical legal education and practice and other social, economic, political and cultural developments that challenge traditional models of clinical legal education. The article will then examine clinical legal education in theory and practice and conclude with reflections on an evolving clinical jurisprudence.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72930678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflecting on Reflective Practices in Clinical Legal Education","authors":"Victoria B. Roper","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.827","url":null,"abstract":"The annual International Journal of Clinical Legal Education conference took place on 28th- 30th November at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. The day before the conference opened, a well-attended pre-conference workshop on ‘Reflective Practices in Clinical Legal Education’ was held at Monash University’s Clayton campus. This article provides a summary of the key highlights of the day.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78309985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supervision in the Clinic Setting: what we Really Want Students to Learn","authors":"Douglas D. Ferguson","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.825","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on certain key elements of student supervision in Community Legal Services at Western University in London, Canada. Our clinic offers a very broad range of legal services, ranging from criminal law to wills, and consumer law to housing, with 125-150 students taking part in 800-1,000 files per year.The first part of this paper will examine compliance with the supervision requirements of the profession’s governing body. Clinic supervision in a clinic must start with compliance with the regulator. The supervision requirements of the Law Society of Ontario are set out to demonstrate the standards Community Legal Services must meet.This paper will then discuss the classroom component consisting of lectures and simulation exercises where we deal with professional identity, ethical issues, sensitization to the lives of our clients, awareness of the importance of access to justice, and the capacity of legal processes.I will discuss our online materials for the classroom, including our Caseworker Manual which provides guidance in substantive law, court/tribunal rules, and clinic policies and procedures.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87064187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Case Study Approach: Legal Outreach Clinics at Northumbria University","authors":"Lyndsey Bengtsson, A. Speed","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V26I1.826","url":null,"abstract":"Through a case study approach, this paper discusses two projects which have been established by clinical supervisors at Northumbria University to support access to justice and promote the development of students’ professional skills and identities through CLE within disadvantaged or minority communities in the North East of England. The projects adopt the model of ‘legal outreach services’ because they operate within distinct communities to provide advice to target groups. The paper will first discuss the different models of CLE; simulation, drop in clinics, letters of advice and full representation. The second part of the paper will go on to discuss legal outreach models and set out the key features of the legal outreach approach. The third part of the article will set out the considerations underpinning the two outreach projects operated by Northumbria Law School: Legal Advice Byker (LAB) and Empower 4 Justice (E4J). The fourth part of the paper will set out in detail the operation of LAB and E4J. The final part of the article will discuss the benefits and limitations of this approach to CLE from a student and community perspective.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87022190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immigration University Clinics and regulation: a working case study","authors":"F. Ridout, D. Gilchrist, J. Dunn","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V25I3.770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V25I3.770","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to introduce readers to the regulation of immigration advice, and how this can work in practice in clinical legal education. The case study of Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre demonstrates that although the statute does not ideally seem to fit with the regulation of university law clinics, it is possible to be compliant. Far from being a negative aspect, regulation in these unique legal advice settings can actually provide a rich ethical learning environment and produce well rounded future lawyers.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73784476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Empirical Legal Research in Action: Reflections on Methods and their Applications","authors":"Paul Dargue","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V25I3.771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V25I3.771","url":null,"abstract":"edited by Willem H. van Boom, Pieter Desmet, and Peter Mascini (Edward Elgar), 2018, 271pp, £85.50 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-78536-274-3","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"12 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85594739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}