LEGAL EDUCATION - AN EDUCATION OF RECURRING LEGAL NEEDS OR HABITS?

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...

The Price of Legal Education

The American Bar Association has created a Task Force on The Future of Legal Education in response to the widely shared sense that the price of the education required for admission to our profession has become excessive and a grave burden on many law students, the profession , and the public good. In August 2013, President Obama spoke to the problem by advancing a suggestion long advanced by ot...

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...

Legal Education and Public Administration

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...