Feminism in Legal Education

Undergraduate Education in Legal Psychology

The purpose of this article is to describe ways that legal psychology can be introduced into the undergraduate curriculum. The extent to which undergraduate "psychology and law" courses are currently a part of the curriculum is described, and a model is proposed for coursework in a Psychology Department that might adequately reflect coverage of the legal area. The role of legal psychology in in...

Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, legal informatics and legal education

Fragmentation and convergence are two discoursal lenses that have been used to view changes that have taken place in the domains of legal services, the legal profession, regulation and legal education. While they may appear orthogonal, the relationships between them are intimate, sophisticated, constantly shifting and require much more analysis. In this paper I shall argue that law schools need...

Use of Legal Expert System LES-5 in Legal Education

It is an important task for a law professor to educate law students in the skill of legal reasoning. A legal expert system is a computer system,, which entails legal knowledge of lawyers as legal experts in its knowledge base. The legal knowledge involves not only written, explicit knowledge like conventions, statutes, cases, commentaries etc., but also implicit legal knowledge which a lawyer u...

Clinical Legal Education and the Reform of the Higher Legal Education System in China

This Article presents an overview of the higher legal education system in China: its structure, purposes, teaching methods, and problems. The Article suggests ways to reform China’s higher legal education system, including clinical legal education, one of the new practical teaching methods that has been used by many law schools in China with promising results. CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION AND THE R...

Legal Education and Public Administration