Learning from communities: Lessons from India on clinical method and liberal education
Gallant K.S.
2019
Educating for Justice Around the World: Legal Education, Legal Practice and the Community
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10.4324/9780429458071-11
Clinical education, whether in legal aid offices in the law school, field placements in law offices, or simulation-based classes, is generally conceptualized as professional education. This includes specific education in skills, such as client relationships and presentations in court. It also includes education concerning the values of the legal profession. In India, clinical legal education has been ‘visualized more in terms of its usefulness to the society, rather than its benefit to a law student’. Indian clinical legal education, despite limited resources, has developed a model for public service and education that confronts students with profound issues of law and community not often faced by students working in clinic law offices, both broadening and deepening the opportunities for learning available to students. The Indian model can provide direction for clinical programs elsewhere that wish to bring these issues into legal education. © Louise G. Trubek and Jeremy Cooper 1999.
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