A GLOBAL LABYRINTH OF AMELIORATING INITIATIVES (PART-I): PEDAGOGIC THREADS FROM CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION TO LAW SCHOOL ACADEMIC SUPPORT PROGRAMS
Journal Title: Asian Journal of Management Sciences and Education - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 4
Abstract
This paper is the first of two integrative reviews on the ameliorating initiatives for legal education. Part I departs from the general motivation for the study rooted in the globalization of higher education that has led to the transformation of legal education across international borders. Universities in Asia have been reforming their legal education by drawing on foreign inspiration, in particular on American-based legal pedagogy. However, American legal education has endured an unabated onslaught of criticism that accentuates the pedagogic challenges of law schools and their instructional methods. While the transpositioning of American-based legal pedagogy to Asian universities advances the internationalization agenda, it also initiates the associated challenges but in different sociocultural contexts. Therefore, the purpose of the study emanates from the lack of a comprehensive diachronic review of the ameliorating initiatives for legal education. The study makes two primary contributions: firstly, it identifies which challenges of legal education the ameliorating initiatives address and neglect, and secondly, it integrates clinical legal education, pedagogic principles, and law school academic support programs into a holistic pedagogic framework for informed curriculum development. An integrative literature review provided the holistic methodological underpinnings for the method to analyze and synthesize the relevant scholarship. The review indicates that four phases of ameliorating initiatives emerged relatively diachronically. Part I focuses on the period between the 1960s through 1990s during which clinical legal education, pedagogic principles, and law school academic support programs proliferated. Part II is dedicated to the period beginning in the 1990s and the burgeoning of thinking like a lawyer rooted in skills-based pedagogy.
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Christiaan Prinsloo
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