{"title":"The Value of Participant Feedback: Insights from Learners in a Novel, Non-University CLE Setting in China","authors":"Alexandra Grey","doi":"10.19164/ijcle.v27i2.959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/ijcle.v27i2.959","url":null,"abstract":"In the scholarship on Clinical Legal Education (CLE), there is relatively little attention to “insider” (participant) perspectives, a skew towards Global North CLE studies, and little exploration of innovations that may take CLE beyond the setting of formal tertiary education. Taking these critical observations as its starting point, and seeking to extend the scholarship in these regards, this paper explores data from 72 feedback questionnaires completed in 2011 and 2012 by participants over two courses of a semester-long, English-Mandarin bilingual a novel legal education program in the People’s Republic of China (China).","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84696101","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":"The Policy Clinic at Northumbria University: Influencing Policy/Law Reform as an Effective Educational Tool for Students","authors":"Rachel Dunn, Lyndsey Bengtsson, Siobhan McConnell","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V27I2.960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V27I2.960","url":null,"abstract":"The Student Law Office (SLO) at Northumbria University has recently incorporated a Policy Clinic (PC) into its existing, and well established, clinical legal education (CLE) programme. This innovative PC model was introduced in order to broaden the reach of the CLE programme, appealing to those students who want to focus on law reform and/or who are unsure about whether they wish to enter the legal profession. This teaching method aims to deepen a student’s understanding of the law as they learn not just about the legal framework but also how laws are actually made and influenced.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"185 1","pages":"68-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76423431","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":"Ephebagogy and Clinical Legal Education","authors":"L. Blackburn","doi":"10.19164/ijcle.v27i2.962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/ijcle.v27i2.962","url":null,"abstract":"This article will seek to examine whether one of the reasons why Clinical Legal Education (CLE) is so effective as a teaching methodology is the age of the students participating in it. The perceived norm would be those students who are engaged in CLE will be predominantly aged between 18-25 years. The central thread of this article will examine ephebagogy as a teaching philosophy for educating this age group; discuss the main objectives of ephebagogy, and, explain how these align with CLE. This article will then explore whether ephebagogy can further enhance CLE as a teaching methodology and contribute to its ascendance to the forefront of legal education by drawing upon the accepted benefits of CLE and expand on the objectives and principles of ephebagogy as advocated by Sara Flowers. KEYWORDS Legal Education, Ephebagogy, Clinical Legal Education, Legal Clinic","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"10 1","pages":"135-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75783406","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 the Field: Some Notes on the 'Clinics and SQE - what next?' Conference about the New Route to Qualifying as a Solicitor in England and Wales","authors":"Malcolm M Combe","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.918","url":null,"abstract":"On 5 June 2019, Coventry University and the Clinical Legal Education Organisation hosted an event entitled ‘Clinics and SQE – what next?’","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"48 1","pages":"237-253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77945110","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":"Designing and Implementing an Enhanced Clinical Program in the Age of Disruption. Part Two: Clinical Activities","authors":"B. Horrigan","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.916","url":null,"abstract":"Part One 1 of this article addressed key institutional challenges in designing and implementing an enhanced clinical program, informed by a law dean’s perspective on the various institutional and individual interests involved. Part Two of this article engages with some of the key controversies and disruptions with which an enhanced clinical program needs to engage in the 21 st century, one way or another. The underlying theme in this concluding part of the article is the repositioning of legal clinical programs and legal clinicians within their broader and fluid surrounding environments. [1] For Part One: see Horrigan, B. ‘Designing and Implementing an Enhanced Clinical Program in the Age of Disruption. Part One: The Environment for Clinic.’ International Journal of Clinical Legal Education 26.2 (2019): 75-104.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"230 1","pages":"204-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79041522","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":"The International Journal of Clinical and Legal Education Conference November 2018","authors":"Jennifer H. Lindstrom","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.917","url":null,"abstract":"From 28 to 30 November 2018, over 130 clinical legal educators, researchers and education partners from around the globe gathered at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia for the annual International Journal of Clinical Legal Education (‘IJCLE’) conference. The theme in 2018 was “Adding Value: How Clinics Contribute to Communities, Students and the Legal Profession”.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"231-236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86627357","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":"Lean Thinking in a UK University Law Clinic: A Reflective Case Study","authors":"A. Nicholson, A. Pakgohar","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.816","url":null,"abstract":"A law clinic typically involves staff and students in a range of complex processes that are highly resource-intensive and which have the potential to detract from core value-adding activities. This paper aims to highlight the challenges associated with resourcing a university law clinic, and evaluate the extent to which lean management is able to provide solutions. It is submitted that proactive and deliberate application of lean management philosophies to law clinic process design has the potential to both reduce resource intensity and enhance value. A literature review was conducted in order to identify lean management principles and methodologies that might be applicable. A case study approach was then used to evaluate key resourcing challenges faced by a UK university law clinic and to explore the extent to which lean thinking might help to overcome them. There is very little literature which discusses the application of lean thinking in the higher education sector, and none which considers the university law clinic context specifically. This paper will provide law school leaders with a resource that will enable them to evaluate and design their clinic processes more effectively, improving the wellbeing of clinic staff and enhancing the pedagogical value of clinic work for students. It will also contribute to the emerging body of literature which highlights the benefits of lean thinking within the higher education sector.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81295990","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 the 'Power' of Clinical Legal Education","authors":"Elaine Hall","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.913","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82379487","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":"Measuring Law Students’ Attitudes Towards and Experiences of Clinical Legal Education at The University of Hong Kong","authors":"C. Tam","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.890","url":null,"abstract":"As law schools in Hong Kong begin to integrate experiential learning into their educational models, clinical legal education (CLE) has symbiotically gained traction as an effective way for students to apply their legal knowledge in a skills-based and client-centered environment. This empirical study is the first of its kind to evaluate the impacts of CLE at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) over the past ten years, by analyzing the survey responses provided by 125 law students regarding their attitudes towards and experiences of CLE. The article traces the birth and development of CLE at HKU, turning first to its theoretical basis to make the case for its importance, and placing emphasis on the ability of CLE’s teaching-service pedagogy to alleviate the public interest law deficit and supplement passive learning as an engaging instructional method in the Hong Kong context. The survey results are then discussed in light of the doctrinal analysis to illustrate that clinic and non-clinic students alike are generally satisfied that HKU’s CLE program has achieved its skills, cognitive, and civic aims, and notably, that clinic students had a statistically significant higher intention to participate in pro bono work after graduation than non-clinic students or students engaged in volunteering.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"47-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76276412","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":"Research-Based Clinical Legal Education: A Contradiction in Terms or a Win-Win? Lessons from a UK Pilot Study","authors":"Lisa Whitehouse","doi":"10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19164/IJCLE.V27I1.853","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides an account of a project (funded by the Ferens Education Trust) which is designed to enhance clinical legal education (CLE) provision within my own institution, develop networks with local stakeholders, promote civic engagement, supplement over-stretched advice provision and elicit valuable research data. The intention in providing a ‘warts and all’ account of how this project developed is to offer an insight into the trials and tribulations of setting up such a scheme, to offer comfort to those who like me, are new to this kind of task and, to assist in efforts to avoid reinventing the wheel. Perhaps more importantly, it aims also to highlight the potential for CLE schemes to facilitate research.","PeriodicalId":31794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical Legal Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"137-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88313732","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}