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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Clinical legal education has revolutionized legal education, from its deepest origins in the nineteenth century to its now-global reach. Zusammenfassung This book explores clinical legal education! from its historical origins of clinical experiments in the earliest days of US university legal education to the now-global reach of clinical pedagogy as a proven tool for effective training of legal professionals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. A global tour of legal education's primary teaching methods: the persistence of tradition; Part I. Origins: 2. Early University legal education in the US: a pedagogy of practice from the Antebellum Period to 1917; 3. The earliest legal clinics: dispensaries, clinics, the legal aid connection and the roots of a movement, 1870-1916; 4. The clinical model in early US medical training: why law didn't follow; 5. Theory and clinical legal education; Part II. Global Reach: 6. Clinical legal education in Latin America; 7. Clinical legal education in Central and Eastern Europe; 8. Clinical legal education in Africa; 9. Clinical legal education in East Asia; 10. Clinical legal education in Central, South East and South Asia, and the Pacific Island nations; 11. Clinical legal education in the Middle East; 12. Clinical legal education in continental Western Europe.
