Reinventing Legal Education: How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe [Hardcover]

Reinventing Legal Education explores how clinical legal education - a new frontier for European public interest lawyering - is reforming law teaching and practice in Europe.This book is for anyone who teaches law. For those just starting out as teaching assistants or those who are senior professors, this book will open the eyes of the reader to the phenomenal innovations taking place in legal education in Europe. Through a series of first-hand accounts collected from across the continent, the reader will be exposed to exciting new ideas about how to make legal education truly impactful (for students, teachers and the broader society).This book is for anyone who teaches law. For those just starting out as teaching assistants or those who are senior professors, this book will open the eyes of the reader to the phenomenal innovations taking place in legal education in Europe. Through a series of first-hand accounts collected from across the continent, the reader will be exposed to exciting new ideas about how to make legal education truly impactful (for students, teachers and the broader society).European legal teaching - historically formalistic, doctrinal, hierarchical, and passive - is coming under increasing pressure to reimagine itself as pragmatic, policy-aware, and action-oriented. Out of this context, a bottom-up movement of university law clinics appears to be emerging in Europe. Although intellectually indebted to the US model, the European variant reflects legal education and practice in Europe, specifically the multi-layered and multi-genetic legal landscape resulting from the Europeanization and internationalization of national legal systems, the globalization of European legal markets, and the growing demand for civic engagement in view of increasingly powerful supra-national institutions. Through the prism of clinical legal education, Reinventing Legal Education is the first attempt to gather scholarly and systematic reflections on the developments takinlƒ9