Tag: autonomy
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Sara Chandler, “Can Litigators Let Go? The Role of Practitioner-Supervisors in Clinical Legal Education Programmes”
This book examines affect through connections between legal education and neuroscience. The authors rely on the following definition of affect set out by Price, 1998: “the affective domain involves the study of emotion: how they are expressed, how they are learned, how they arise, how they are experienced consciously and unconsciously how they are influenced…
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Ross Hyams, “On Teaching Students to ‘Act like a Lawyer’: What Sort of Lawyer?”
This article argues that generations of law students are not prepared for the practice of law. Clinical legal educators seek to teach practical legal skills to students; however, they also have the ability to teach students professionalism and, ultimately, how to be lawyers. This requires teaching students how to act, not just how to think.…