Elizabeth Curran, “Social Justice – Making It Come Alive and a Reality for Student and Enabling Them to become Engaged Future Ethical Practitioners”

This article discusses the benefit of exposing law students to access to justice in the context of clinical legal education, better situates them for the uncertainties and realities of legal practice, within the Australian context.

This paper further discusses the drawbacks of teaching students merely through the case method in individual legal silos, an impediment to students thinking broadly. It sets out a teaching philosophy for clinical education courses and highlights the lack of reflective processes within the area, and more broadly within the law, particularly through the use of journaling as a means of providing the supervisor the opportunity to engage with students, follow progress, and identify issues early on.

Elizabeth Curran, “Social Justice – Making It Come Alive and a Reality for Student and Enabling Them to become Engaged Future Ethical Practitioners” (2018) 27:2 Nottingham LJ 33.