Elgar concise encyclopedia of legal education / Fiona Cownie, Anthony Bradney, and Emma Jones, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cownie, Fiona, editor.

Bradney, Anthony, editor.

Jones, Emma, editor.

Series:

Elgar Concise Encyclopedias in Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2025]

Summary:

"This Concise Encyclopedia provides a thorough overview of legal education and explores diverse topics including the use of digital skills in law schools, and the intersection between law and economics and law and humanities. Carefully curated, it presents an invaluable survey of legal pedagogy. Incisive and informative, the Encyclopedia considers different jurisdictions around the world, dissecting the history, contemporary situation and regulation of legal education and enabling the reader to make global comparisons. Entries include analyses of topics including pro-bono initiatives and public legal education in prisons. They cover key perspectives and approaches, from the traditional to the innovative and experimental, such as AI and game-based learning. The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Education is an essential resource for students and academics interested in law and society, legal education, and teaching methods in law. Its content will also be of value to other professionals and practitioners in the field. Key Features: 111 entries written by leading scholars and practitioners in the field. Individual bibliographies facilitate further reading. A range of contemporary topics that highlight different approaches to legal education across Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Preface

1. Academic skills in legal education

2. Adjunct professors and legal pracademics

3. AI literacies in legal education

4. Alternative Dispute Resolution and legal education

5. Argentina (contemporary legal education)

6. Argentina (history of legal education)

7. Argentina (regulation of contemporary legal education)

8. Assessment in legal education

9. Australia (contemporary legal education)

10. Australia (history of university legal education)

11. Australia (regulation of legal education)

12. Building community in the law school classroom

13. Canada (contemporary legal education)

14. Canada (history of legal education)

15. Canada (regulation of legal education)

16. Children, schools and legal education

17. China (contemporary legal education)

18. China (history of legal education)

19. China (regulation of legal education)

20. Class in legal education

21. Client interviewing in legal education

22. Clinical legal education (for commerce)

23. Clinical legal education (for individuals)

24. Clinical legal education (overview)

25. Clinicians in legal education

26. Comparative legal education

27. Contemplative practices in legal education

28. Continuing professional development of legal professionals

29. Creativity in legal education

30. Critical legal studies

31. Decolonising the legal curriculum

32. Design in legal education

33. Digital learning and legal education

34. Digital skills in legal education

35. Disability and legal education

36. Doctrinal legal education

37. Emeriti positions

38. Emotions and soft skills in legal education

39. Employability and legal education

40. England (contemporary legal education)

41. England (history of legal education).

42. England (regulation of legal education)

43. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and the law school

44. Ethnicity and legal education

45. Feminist legal education

46. France (contemporary legal education)

47. France (history of legal education)

48. France (regulation of legal education)

49. Further education

50. Game based learning in legal education

51. Gender and the law school

52. Germany (contemporary legal education)

53. History of legal education in Germany

54. Germany (regulation of legal education)

55. Health justice partnerships

56. Higher education

57. India (contemporary legal education)

58. India (history of legal education)

59. India (regulation of legal education)

60. Indigenous legal education

61. Law and economics

62. Law and humanities

63. Learned societies and associations of legal academics

64. Legal education journals

65. Legal writing instructors

66. Mexico (contemporary legal education)

67. Mexico (history of legal education)

68. Regulation of legal education in Mexico

69. Mooting and legal education

70. Negotiation and legal education

71. Neurodiversity and legal education

72. Nigeria (contemporary legal education)

73. Nigeria (history of legal education)

74. Nigeria (regulation of legal education)

75. Paralegal legal education

76. Poland (contemporary legal education)

77. Poland (history of legal education)

78. Poland (regulation of legal education)

79. Police legal education

80. Pre-qualification legal workplace experience

81. Precarious employment and legal academics

82. Pro bono initiatives

83. Problem-based learning

84. Professional identity formation of law students

85. Professional identities of legal academics

86. Professional legal education.

87. Professional support staff in law schools

88. Public legal education (community)

89. Public legal education (prisons)

90. Reflection and legal education

91. Research into legal education (empirical)

92. Research into legal education (non-empirical)

93. Scholarship and legal education

94. Service teaching in legal education

95. Sexuality and legal education

96. Social justice, citizenship and legal education

97. Social workers' legal education

98. Socio-legal approaches to legal education

99. Socratic method

100. South Africa (contemporary legal education)

101. South Africa (history of legal education)

102. South Africa (regulation of legal education)

103. Sustainability and legal education

104. Transnational legal education

105. Trauma-informed legal education

106. USA (contemporary legal education)

107. USA (history of legal education)

108. USA (regulation of legal education)

109. Values and ethics in legal education

110. Wellbeing/mental health of law students

111. Wellbeing/mental health of legal academics.

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ISBN:

9781035302932

1035302934

OCLC:

1485622734