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Clinical Education in China: The Next Steps Brian K. Landsberg

Clinical Education in China: The Next Steps Brian K. Landsberg. Growth of Clinical Education in China. Number of Law Schools with Clinics [Based on membership in CCCLE]. Nature of Clinical Education in China: Phase One, the first decade. Wide range of programs Live client clinics

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Clinical Education in China: The Next Steps Brian K. Landsberg

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  1. Clinical Education in China: The Next Steps Brian K. Landsberg

  2. Growth of Clinical Education in China Number of Law Schools with Clinics [Based on membership in CCCLE]

  3. Nature of Clinical Education in China: Phase One, the first decade • Wide range of programs • Live client clinics • Student legal aid programs • Mock trial programs • Simulation courses • Often low status • Wide range of faculty competence and availability • Some similarity with U.S. clinics forty years ago

  4. Issues in Phase Two, The Second Decade of Chinese Legal Clinics • Objectives of clinical legal education • Serve legal needs of the disadvantaged? • Improve students’ understanding of doctrine? • Mold students’ professional skills and values? • Help students get jobs? • A combination of the above objectives?

  5. Issues in Phase Two • China’s evolving definition of “clinical legal education” • Professor-led clinics • Hybrid clinics? • Lawyer-led clinics [such as Legal Aid]? • Externships? • Simulation courses? • Place in the curriculum • Units • Undergraduate, graduate, or both

  6. Issues in Phase Two • Faculty • Status? • Teaching load? • Competence? • Scholarship? • Teaching methods • Import from common law countries? • Home grown? • A mixture? • Assessment methods?

  7. Issues in Phase Two • Resources for further development • Committee of Chinese Clinical Legal Educators [CCCLE] • Chinese government • Regional conferences • E.g., Zhejiang Province law school conference • Ford Foundation • Pacific McGeorge project • Yale China program

  8. Materials • CCCLE web site [in Chinese] • Pacific McGeorge web site • http://www.mcgeorge.edu/Experiential_Education_in_China.htm • Lists articles and books about clinical legal education in China • Contains training materials from our train the trainers program • Will soon link to a Sakai site of curricular materials • How develop more of the materials clinicians need?

  9. Today’s Program • The speakers and commentators have all been participants in the Pacific McGeorge educate the educators program. • They will address at least some of the questions I listed above and will tell us how their law schools are responding to the questions. • We encourage interchanges of ideas. How have law schools in other countries approached these issues?

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