Category: Well-being
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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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Clinical Legal Education Association, “Handbook for New Clinical Teachers”
This handbook was first drafted in 1999 and has been updated many times since. The handbook is aimed at new clinicians in the United States. It contains short explainers of various important topics in clinical legal education, including supervision. The handbook contains useful information for Canadian clinicians, but has a very strong American perspective. The…