Rethinking the Law School
Education, Research, Outreach and Governance

Written by a former dean, this book offers a unique understanding of challenges facing legal education, research, publishing and governance.

Carel Stolker (Author)

9781107073890, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 December 2014

472 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.86 kg

'If you are looking to examine global trends in legal education, this book is a great asset, whether you seek to read it all or to focus on a specific chapter. … While none of the topics addressed are particularly new … seeing these familiar topics discussed on a global scale, noting both our similarities and our differences, provides a unique and fascinating perspective. By comparing and contrasting legal education in nations around the world, and by understanding the values placed on legal education in legal systems other than our own, we may find ourselves better able to appreciate, embrace, and pass on the values of our own institutions to the students who will take these ideals into the world.' Ashley Ahlbrand, Law Library Journal

Law, by its very nature, tends to think locally, not globally. This book has a broader scope in terms of the range of nations and offers a succinct journey through law schools on different continents and subject matters. It covers education, research, impact and societal outreach, and governance. It illustrates that law schools throughout the world have much in common in terms of values, duties, challenges, ambitions and hopes. It provides insights into these aspirations, whilst presenting a thought-provoking discussion for a more global agenda on the future of law schools. Written from the perspective of a former dean, the book offers a unique understanding of the challenges facing legal education and research.

1. Law schools: some preliminary sketches
2. Universities and their strategic challenges
3. Law school in search of identity
4. Educating law students
5. Pedagogy: teaching law students
6. Legal scholarship: venerable and vulnerable
7. Lawyers' ways of publishing
8. Law schools' economic and societal impact
9. Whose law school is it?
10. Creating creativity in the law school
11. Governing law schools: strategy, leadership and collegiality
12. Towards a common agenda for law schools: some conclusions.

Subject Areas: Legal skills & practice [LAS], Law [L]