Globally, the methodologies of legal education have not changed in any fundamental way, some methods dating back hundreds of years. Law schools have relied, for too long, on passive learning methods such as lectures or cases. Clinical legal education provides an alternative that is more than just another pedagogical method. It provides a way for students to experience their emerging professional selves, while providing services or projects with poor and underrepresented clients. This book documents both the historical origins of clinical experiments in the earliest days of US university legal education, and the now-global reach of clinical pedagogy as a proven tool for effective training of legal professionals.

Clinical legal education has revolutionized legal education, from its deepest origins in the nineteenth century to its now-global reach.

About the Author
Richard J. Wilson has taught law for more than thirty years. He has been a visiting faculty member in law schools in Finland, the Netherlands, Peru and Japan, and was a Fulbright scholar in Colombia and Tiller House Fellow with the American Society of International Law. He has co-edited two books and authored more than 70 articles on a wide range of topics including legal education, human rights and criminal procedure, and he has received three academic prizes for his writing.


Book Information
ISBN 9781107025615
Author Richard J. Wilson
Format Hardback
Page Count 360
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 620g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 158mm * 23mm