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The New Law School – Reexamining Goals, Organization, and Methods for a Changing World
Author(s): Daniela Ikawa (Author), Leah Wortham (Author)
- Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 118 pages
- ISBN-10: 8323328633
- ISBN-13: 9788323328636
Book Description
This collection of essays is a unique contribution to understanding the issues confronting law schools in Central and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union as they seek to ensure that their programs meet the needs of 21st century lawyers. The book is unusual in two ways. First, most of the authors are faculty members at universities in the region. Despite a plethora of initiatives to reform legal education in Central and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union, there has been little literature on the topic coming from the region itself. Second, the essays address structural issues as well as pedagogical ones (e.g., the disincentives for academics to invest time in developing new teaching methodologies and the problems posed by rigid government standards for higher education). It is particularly useful to have these essays collected in one book, so that readers can see both problems and some suggested solutions in a cross-cultural context.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This collection of essays is a unique contribution to understanding the issues confronting law schools in Central and Easters Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union as they seek to ensure that their programs meet the meeds of 21st century laweyers.–Barbara Schatz, Prof. of Law, Columbia Law School
About the Author
Daniela Ikawa is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Study of Human Rights in Columbia University. Leah Wortham has been on the faculty of the Columbus School of Law of The Catholic University of America (CUA) since 1981. She served as clinical coordinator from 1981-1990 and associate dean from 1990-95. She teaches Professional Responsibility, Criminal Law, and in the externship clinical program. She is an editor and co-author of Learning From Practice, published by Thomson Publishing, the first textbook for general externship clinical programs.
