Legal Education, Legal Practice and Ethics

Epistemology and Ethics in Relationship - Centered Legal Education and Practice

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Susan L. Brooks is the Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and an Associate Professor of Law at the Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law. Robert G. Madden is a Professor of Social Work at Saint Joseph College, where he currently serves as Special Assistant to the President. He is also a Lecturer in Law at the University of Connecticut. The authors dedicate this art...

Legal Ethics in Preparation for Law Practice

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...

Action-based Jurisprudence: Praxeological Legal Theory in Relation to Economic Theory, Ethics, and Legal Practice

THEORIZING ABOUT LAW and legal concepts falls under the field of jurisprudence, as do certain aspects of the assessment of legal institutions, procedures, and processes. Theorists in this field are typically described as working within various schools of thought, principally: natural law, legal positivism, legal realism, and critical legal studies. An alternative to these schools has been emerg...

A Religious Perspective on Legal Practice and Ethics