Category: Annotated Bibliography
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Lack of supervisor training
“How did I learn? I mean when I came to the clinic, there was no training for that, but I think what I brought with me was my history of being a lawyer for 16 years before that, saw me involved in always being a mentor to students… I had that just natural ability that…
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Lack of supervisor training
“Interviewer (I): How did you learn about being a supervisor in a clinic? Clinic Supervisor (CS): By doing it. Both: [Laughs]. CS: Yeah, there was no training. I was just a lawyer… Is there training for supervisors? I’ve never even heard of that.” (1)
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Riette du Plessis,“Clinical Legal Education Models: Recommended Assessment Regimes”
This article aims to provide guidance regarding the design and/or review of community legal education programs. It is noted that there are many similarities in approaches taken to clinical legal education, both locally in South Africa and abroad, but there are also many differences. A review of the curricula of four South African university legal…
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Archie Zariski & Irene Styles, Supervising Students in Clinical Legal Education Handbook with Exercises
This Australian handbook sets out guidelines for the supervisory relationship in clinical legal education. This handbook was created through consultations with various clinic staff and identifies nine main issues that clinicians and clinic staff may face when supervising students. Included with each main issue are (1) a brief overview of the topic; (2) comments from…
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Susan Bryant, “Collaboration in Law Practice: A Satisfying and Productive Process for a Diverse Profession”
This article examines collaboration among lawyers and argues that lawyers need a new set of skills and perspectives to collaborate more effectively. Collaboration is a process that involves shared decision-making by fellow collaborators, which allows for the development of ideas, leading to collective knowledge. Participatory decision-making models, like collaboration, increase worker satisfaction by relieving the…
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Janet Weinstein et al, “Teaching Teamwork to Law Students”
This article sets out the rationale for teaching teamwork. The authors analyzed survey results they collected from their interdisciplinary classes (law and another discipline) that required teamwork in medicine and social work. This paper is helpful for clinicians in inter- or multi-disiplinary settings. It includes suggestions for how to improve teamwork, some teamwork theory, and…
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Donna Erez Navot, “Tools for the Clinic Professor: Applying Group Development Theory to Collaborative Learning in Law School Mediation Clinics”
This article examines the theory of group development and collaborative learning as applied to a small group law school mediation clinic. When clinical instructors understand the framework and theory of typical group development, they can help to normalize and illuminate the group process in clinical education, and the clinical instructor can anticipate and better deal…
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Deborah Burand et al, “Clinical Collaborations: Going Global to Advance Social Entrepreneurship”
This article chronicles a transactional clinic collaboration between three clinics in the US seeking to advance social entrepreneurship globally. The article discusses why collaboration was used, the structure of the program, what the collaboration offers clients and participating law students, how the collaboration has expanded the skills and knowledge of the three clinical directors, and…