Social Justice: Making it come alive for future, ethical practitioners

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dc.contributor.authorCurran, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-19T23:17:56Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2019-08-04T08:19:57Z
dc.description.abstractThis article takes access to justice as a site of legal education within an overall umbrella of Clinical Legal Education that encompasses both live client work and simulated work in classrooms designed to prepare students in skills needed for practice. It argues that, by situating students in the access to justice realm in law school, they are better prepared for the uncertainties and realities of legal practice, even if that is not the field of practice in which they ultimately find themselves. Such an approach also exposes students to their duties as lawyers and officers of the court to uphold the rule of law, and to ensure both confidence in, and integrity of, the legal system. A by-product is that students develop a sense of professionalism and become better lawyers who are more likely to keep their integrity intact. By deploying both reflection–in-action and reflection-on-action in real-world activity or strongly authentic simulation, students are engaged and enabled to bring to their study a critical approach to analysing notions of law and justice that goes beyond the level of pure doctrinal learning to a deeper understanding of the way that the law affects people and plays out in society. This article draws heavily on my experience as a clinical legal educator with direct involvement in curriculum design, teaching and programme evaluation over the past two decades. Following some clarification of concepts and terminology, a brief overview of my teaching philosophy and reflective practice journey provides a preface to the discussion. This discussion shows, by reference to a series of examples, how classes with an access to justice focus can address the limitations of traditional legal learning – that is, learning by case law through examination of court decisions and legal problems in legal subjects (such as torts or contract) as individual silos  which can be an impediment to students thinking broadly. These practical examples of teaching approaches, tools and strategies that I have used serve to stimulate student awareness, broaden students’ skills in identifying and develop a problem-solving approach to law, by engaging them in access to justice.
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dc.identifier.issn0965-0660en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/196408
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherNottingham Trent Universityen_AU
dc.rights© Nottingham Law Journalen_AU
dc.sourceNottingham Law Journalen_AU
dc.titleSocial Justice: Making it come alive for future, ethical practitionersen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage47en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage33en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationCurran, Elizabeth, ANU College of Law, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidCurran, Elizabeth, u5084532en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor180199 - Law not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.absseo940499 - Justice and the Law not elsewhere classifieden_AU
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local.identifier.ariespublicationu4455135xPUB1
local.identifier.citationvolume27en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4455135en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.ntu.ac.uk/nls/news_events/nlj/index.htmlen_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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