The future of Australian legal education : a collection / edited by the Hon Kevin Lindgren, the Hon Justice Francois Kunc, Emeritus Professor Michael Coper.

Pyrmont, N.S.W. : Lawbook co., 2018.

1st edition

89009

Law -- Study and teaching -- Australia.

Part I: Keynote address

1. Why lawyers need a broad social education

Part II: The historical context and regulatory framework

2. The past is a different country

3. The Bowen Report: the overlooked influence on Australian legal education

4. Regulating admissions: are we there yet?

5. Reflections on approaches to drafting regulatory standards: finding ways to quicken, not deaden, the spirit of legal education

6. The CALD standards for Australian law schools: much more than course content

7. The Australian legal education sector: key metrics

8. The future of Australian legal education: a comparative view

Part III: The 'good' lawyer

9. Reaching your verdict: a vocational guide to whether or not to study law

10. Identifying students' drive as a compass to being a good lawyer

11. Good mental health as a component of the good lawyer

12. Preparing for the business of law, not the practice of law

Part IV: Breadth, skills and critical thinking

13. Why prescriptive legal education demands critical perspectives

14. Business, law and regulation: a model for developing critical thinking skills in future law graduates

15. The case for change: keeping one's own counsel

16. Clinical legal experience and the benefits of practical training: student perspectives

Part V: The curriculum

17. Teaching statutory interpretaion

18. Statutory interpretation and legal ethics: once and done or taught throughout the curriculum

19. The role of legal history in Australian legal education

20. Embedding indigenous cultural competence: a case study

21. Can Australian lawyers of the future afford not to be internationalist

Part VI: Responding to technology

22. The need for lawyers

23. New skills for new lawyers: responding to technology and practice developments

24. Keep calm and carry on: why increasing automation of legal services should deepen and not diminish legal education

25. Exploring the use of artificial intelligence to improve law students' self-assessments

26. Flipping the chalk and talk with law students on and off line: the advantages of transformative pedagogy utilising technology

27. Equity, diversity and inclusion through online learning: using a massive open online course (MOOC) to facilitate acquisition of specialist legal knowledge

28. Fertile octogenarians in cyberspace: why and how to use technology to connect the law school classroom to legal practice

29. Teaching skills for future legal professionals

Part VII: The future.

30. Four perspectives on the future of Australian legal education

31. Closing thoughts.

The Future of Australian Legal Education Conference was held in August 2017 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Australian Academy of Law (AAL), the 90th anniversary of the Australian Law Journal (ALJ) and the 30th anniversary of the Pearce Report on Australian Law Schools. The conference provided a forum for an informed, national discussion on the future of legal study and practice in Australia, covering practitioners, academics, judges and students. This volume contains papers presented by Australia's leading legal education experts and high ranking judicial members and addresses topics such as: the impact of digital technology on teaching, learning and legal practice; what makes a "good" lawyer; what are the purposes and goals of legal education; current pedagogy and its outcomes; enhancing access to, and Indigenous engagement in, legal education; experiential learning and the interaction of law across disciplines and international borders. This collection represents an invaluable contribution to the continuing discussion around legal education in Australia. - Publisher's website.

A collection of papers that were presented at a conference under the title The Future of Australian Legal Education held at the Federal Court in Sydney from 11-13 August 2017. Conference was sponsored by the Australian Academy of Law and By Thomson Reuters, the publisher of the Australian Law Journal--Preface.

Table of contents is taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

9780455241357

xvi, 519 p. : illustrations ; 25 cm