The new law school : reexamining goals, organization and methods for a changing world / Daniela Ikawa, Leah Wortham (eds.) ; Public Interest Law Institute.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ikawa, Daniela.

Wortham, Leah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching--Congresses.

Law.

Law schools--Congresses.

Law schools.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (117 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Krakow : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, c 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays is a unique contribution to understanding the issues confronting law schools in Central and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union as they seek to ensure that their programs meet the needs of 21st century lawyers. The book is unusual in two ways. First, most of the authors are faculty members at universities in the region. Despite a plethora of initiatives to reform legal education in Central and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union, there has been little literature on the topic coming from the region itself. Second, the essays address structural issues as well as pedagogical ones (e.g., the disincentives for academics to invest time in developing new teaching methodologies and the problems posed by rigid government standards for higher education). It is particularly useful to have these essays collected in one book, so that readers can see both problems and some suggested solutions in a cross-cultural context.

Contents:

Relative significance of legal tradition and legal education reform / Diego Blazquez Martin

Faculty management: a matter of balance / Michiel can de Kasteelen

Interactive teaching methodologies in Ukrainian legal education: balancing between state of the art and a newfangled whim / Daniyil E. Fedorchuk

The challenges of higher legal education in the Kyrgyz Republic and the peculiarities of educational process at the AUCA Law Department / Elida Nogoibaeva, Kamila Mateeva

The environmental law clinic: a new experience in legal education in Spain / Susana Borras, Lucia Casado, Aitana De la Varga, Angeles Galiana, Jordi Jaria, Maria Marques, Anna Pallares, Antoni Pigrau

The judicial practice center: the connection between theory and socially responsible professional practice / Marta Janina Skrodzka

The challenges of the mass university and the civil law country model of legal education: how open is the Polish University Model to innovative teaching and nurturing of clinical programs? / Fryderyk Zoll

Croatian legal education reform at the crossroads: preparing the modern lawyer / Dubravka Aksamovic

The need for a new law professor in Moldova / Mihaela Vidaicu, Nadejda Hriptievschi, Maria MutuStrulea

Some aspects of academic legal careers in Georgia / Irma Gelashvili, Nino Rukhadze.

Notes:

Material from a conference, "The Need for a New Law School" held in Krakow, 19-21 June, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

83-233-8279-4

OCLC:

794328271