Category: Uncertainty
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David F Chavkin, “Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Student Collaboration in Clinical Programs”
This article explores student collaboration in representing clients in clinical courses. It discusses both the benefits and disadvantages of putting students in teams. This article includes a literature review on collaboration and teamwork, as well as interviews with clinicians and students. The author provides recommendations to enhance collaboration in clinical programs. In this model, students…
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Sarah R Boonin & Luz E Herrera, “From Pandemic to Pedagogy: Teaching the Technology of Lawyering in Law Clinics”
This article examines the role of technology in legal clinics during the pandemic and offers clinicians a series of suggestions for how to be more intentional about the use of technology in clinical programs. The authors use the term “the technology of lawyering” to represent the use of technology in legal practice that allows clients…
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Sarah Fishel, Kellie Wiltsie & David DeMatteo, “Certainly Uncertain: Facilitating Law Student Professional Growth and Well-Being through Supervision in Light of COVID-19”
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This article sets out a series of strategies that can be implemented in clinical supervision, focusing on well-being as part of professional development. Supervision models frequently contend that students should be active participants in their legal education. Generally speaking, supervision models advance methods that empower students to learn that effective action comes from thought and…
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Richard Ingram, “Emotionally Sensitive Supervision”
This chapter explores emotion within supervision, and consider how the best supervision elucidate the opportunities, challenges, and contributions of the emotional content of practice. Emotionally sensitive supervision requires willingness within the supervisory relationship to engage in complex and uncertain conversations about practice in a manner that requires a degree of emotional exposure. Simulating emotionally sensitive…
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Mary Lee Nelson et al, “A Feminist Multicultural Perspective on Supervision”
This article discusses how gender and race interact with each other within the context of supervision. The authors suggest that in order to be open to multicultural supervision and the perspectives therein, supervisors must have the courage to be anxious, grapple with the uncertainty with respect to the silence that occurs in relation to feminism…
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Carol Boothby, “Supervising the Supervisors: What are the Challenges Inherent in Teaching in a Clinic Environment and how can Colleagues be Supported on the Transition from Practitioner to Practice-Informed Teacher and Researcher”
This PhD thesis centres the question of how clinicians understand their roles as lawyers/supervisors/academics, particularly in the transition from one role to another. It is wide-ranging and draws on a variety of research methods. The author tries to capture the unique role of the clinic supervisor, which bridges several roles and identities. “In many respects,…
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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…
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Alice Alexander & Jeffrey Smith, “Law Student Supervision – An Organized System”
This article broadly outlines a supervision model for legal employers and law students beyond the legal clinic context. It suggests that an organized system of supervision is essential to the successful employment of law students. It also ensures better work products from students while helping students obtain a significantly improved practical legal education experience. Additionally,…
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Liz Omand, “What makes for good supervision and whose responsibility is it anyway?”
Liz Omand suggests that within the counseling and psychotherapy, the supervisory relationship is complicated and may lead to experiences of anxiety, frustration, conflict and misunderstanding while also fostering excitement and satisfaction. Thus, to be a good supervisor, there are several qualities that supervisors must espouse. Supervisors must be prepared to learn by way of elaboration…
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Jennifer A Gundlach, “This is a Courtroom, Not a Classroom: So What is the Role of the Clinical Supervisor?”
This article contains helpful advice on supporting clinic law students in courtroom settings. It includes several suggestions for exercises and supervisory discussions with the student to enrich the experience, most of which occur at the post-court appearance stage. The author argues that supervisors should facilitate the development of students’ professional autonomy through theory development, collaborative…