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Clinical and Experiential Learning in Canadian Law Schools: Current Perspectives
Type de ressource
Auteurs/contributeurs
- Smyth, Gemma (Auteur)
- Hale, Samantha (Auteur)
- Gold, Neil (Auteur)
Titre
Clinical and Experiential Learning in Canadian Law Schools: Current Perspectives
Résumé
What are some of the challenges and possibilities animating modern Canadian clinical and experiential learning in law? This question was the starting point for our research, which examined two sets of data. In the first part of this project, we analyzed available information on existing clinical and experiential learning programs in Canadian law schools. This data revealed a growing quantity and variety of programs across the country. We then held qualitative interviews with deans, professors, and clinicians across Canada regarding their views of clinical and experiential learning. While the interviews suggested that many of the same financial and curricular challenges that dominated early debates remain stubbornly entrenched, there are also significant promising views and practices. No longer regarded by most as a legal education outlier, clinical and experiential learning has come out of the curricular shadows and taken a prominent place in most law schools in Canada. Nuanced questions now dominate thinking around this generation of clinical and experiential learning. What is the role of community in the creation, decision making, and continuity of clinical programs? How can students balance an increasingly intensive set of learning, professional, and financial challenges? How can clinical and experiential learning be better aligned with the rest of the curriculum, and as accessible as possible? As all respondent law schools but one are expanding their clinical and experiential learning options, these and other questions will continue to animate programs in the foreseeable future.
Publication
Canadian Bar Review
Volume
95
Numéro
1
Pages
151-178
Date
2017
Abrév. de revue
Can. B. Rev.
Langue
English
Référence
Smyth, G., Hale, S. et Gold, N. (2017). Clinical and Experiential Learning in Canadian Law Schools: Current Perspectives. Canadian Bar Review, 95(1), 151‑178. https://heinonline-org.acces.bibl.ulaval.ca/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/canbarev95&id=151&collection=journals&index=journals/canbarev
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