The Legal Education and Training Review: regulating socio-legal and liberal legal education?
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2014Peer-Reviewed
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The Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) which reported in June 2013 conceded that undergraduate law degrees are generally outside the remit of the review other than when there is a direct impact on the provision of legal services. On first glance therefore the review has few implications for those of us interested in delivering a liberal legal education and developing socio-legal approaches to law and legal study. However, on closer reading, the report contains a number of suggestions which, if taken up by the regulators, have significant potential to change law degrees, even if regulation remains “light touch”. This article explores those issues with a particular focus on the implications for liberal law degrees and socio-legal approaches to law teaching. In particular the article will explore issues around possible changes to foundation subjects; the creation of a framework of learning outcomes; the possible strengthening of legal writing and research in the curriculum and the opportunities offered for the introduction of more socio-legal material; and the trickle-down effect likely to be felt by providers of undergraduate law degrees of changes in regulation of legal services and as a result of student, employer and other stakeholder expectations.Version
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Guth J and Ashford C (2014) The Legal Education and Training Review: regulating socio-legal and liberal legal education? The Law Teacher 48(1): 5-19.Link to Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2013.875304Type
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https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2013.875304