Category: Best Practices
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Adrian Evans et al, Australian Clinical Legal Education
Of particular interest in this book is the chapter “The Importance of Effective Supervision”. This chapter considers the changing dynamics of supervision in law firms and the key supervision issues facing clinical programs. It focuses on important supervision dimensions, which include: enhancing quality, accuracy, and timeliness of tasks; mentoring junior staff; fostering awareness of ethical…
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Leah Wortham et al, Learning from Practice: A Text for Experiential Legal Education
This book examines learning from lawyering experience, whether that be through externships, clinics, or simulation courses. Chapter 3: Learning from Supervision outlines the framework for an effective supervisory relationship. The effective supervisory relationship is threefold; it involves macro planning/ goal setting, micro-planning/ assignment clarification, and effective feedback. Macro planning requires establishing long-term goals in relation…
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Colin James, “Seeing Things as We Are. Emotional Intelligence and Clinical Legal Education”
This article considers how clinical legal education provides the best opportunities to engage with students at a level that will impact their inner well-being. It examines sets out an understanding of emotional intelligence and its relevance in clinical legal education. Emotional intelligence is defined as a partnership between our rational brain and the limbic brain;…
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Brook K Baker, “Learning to Fish, Fishing to Learn: Guided Participation in the Interpersonal Ecology of Practice”
This article argues that an ecological learning theory should be applied to legal clinics. Ecological learning theory emphasizes the value of meaningful co-participation in tasks, mutual respect from supervisors and peers, and responsiveness from the larger social environment. Ecological learning theory suggests that students can be relatively independent and self-directed learners. Supervisors do not have…
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Meribah Rose & Chris Maylea, “The Case for Implementing Legal Clinical Supervision within Legal Practice, and Recommendations for Best Practices”
his article aimed to explore the potential benefits of incorporating clinical-style supervision into the legal profession more broadly. The authors utilized a narrative literature review which identified, reviewed, and summarized the existing literature on clinical supervision within the legal profession. Results indicated that there are multiple benefits associated with clinical-style supervision, including the reduction of…
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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. It includes information about effective supervision skills, stages of growth, juggling serving clients and students, dealing with different values and personalities, and managing time and information. It concludes by setting out a series of suggestions and resources. This handbook contains exercises,…
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Adrian Evans et al, Best Practices: Australian Clinical Legal Education
This Report, funded by the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching, sets out a list of principles and best practices integral to legal clinic education in Australia. A reader looking for jurisdictional background, practical tools such as clinic learning outcomes, supervision and reflection. The Report is based on a set of interviews with 26…