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A study of undergraduate students' reported commitment within higher education and the impact of that commitment on intentions to emit word-of-mouth communication
No full textLaw and Justice in the 1950s: case studies from a Neglected Decade (ed. by F. Cownie)
No full textThe 1950s was a decade of considerable legal development in England and Wales, despite often being regarded as very conservative in contrast to the more radical 1960s and 1970s. This collection illustrates the breadth of those developments, providing a sociolegal perspective on a range of topics across criminal, property, family, commercial, environmental and public law, and legal education. It examines the social, political and economic context of the decade to reveal how legal developments in the 1950s have much greater significance than has generally been acknowledged to date. Drawing on case studies from the Great London Smog in 1952, the treatment of women in the Wolfenden Report and divorce law reform, to the takeover battle for the Savoy Hotel in 1953, law on the radio and more, the chapters throw new light on current debates about the relationship between law and issues of justice, inclusion and equality in different spheres of activity.Written for historians and legal specialists alike, this book explores the stories behind the laws in this neglected decade. In revealing the historical context, arguments and controversies raised at the time and the different perspectives of the parties involved, it offers a greater understanding of why we have the law we have now and of these issues as they continue to be played out in the early twenty-first century
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Introduction - Entanglements and entrapments in the law school: Legal education, change and relationality
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Innovative technologies in UK legal education
No full textAre law schools equipping graduates with the skills required for twenty-first-century legal practice? Should an understanding of the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on legal services now be a pre-requisite for the contemporary law degree? Will coding be as important as constitutional theory?
This chapter will argue that the digital age requires a commitment to developing the capacity of law students to respond to technological innovation. Practice-ready law graduates need more than a traditional legal skill base to navigate their way through a changing legal landscape. Law schools need to respond by developing a legal curriculum that equips law graduates to flourish in a digital environment.
The authors assess the impact of digital transformation on the legal profession and consider the implications for contemporary legal education, both in terms of content and pedagogy. They argue that pedagogical innovations can enhance the teaching of law and consider the extent to which technological literacy should be integrated into the curriculum
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Key Directions in Legal Education: National and International Perspectives
No full textAcross the world, legal education is subjected to a continuous process of change and evolution. This edited collection identifies and explores key contemporary and emerging themes in legal education which are likely to have a significant impact on the law schools, law students and legal academics in the coming years. Each theme is explored by two or more authors from different jurisdictions, allowing for rich comparative dialogue and insights into the current and future directions of legal education.
Key themes explored in this collection include the pressures on law schools exerted by external stakeholders, the fostering of interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration within law schools, the evolution of discourses around teaching and learning legal skills, the continuing development of clinical legal education as a core component of the law degree, the emergence and use of innovative technologies within law teaching and the growing awareness of the need to tackle issues relating to law student wellbeing. Dr Emma Jones’ introduction provides a suggested theoretical framework drawing together these themes around the concept of relationality, whilst Professor Anthony Bradney’s conclusion provides an incisive comment on the themes explored.
Overall, this edited collection provides an important addition to contemporary debates within legal education by providing a breadth of both national and international perspectives in a format which offers an insight into commonalities and differences between jurisdictions and moves forward the debate on key themes
Becoming a female solicitor: vocational professional training as a site of identity formation and professional socialisation
Full text linkPersistent structural inequalities within the solicitors’ profession in England and Wales include the entry barriers faced by non-traditional applicants, and the hegemonic masculinity of the profession. Legal education is a significant actor in the process of legal professional socialisation, and vocational and professional training (VPT) is particularly significant because it is the only part of the formal legal education process through which almost all aspiring solicitors will go. Existing research does not specifically examine the significance of VPT in the formation of the professional identities of aspiring female solicitors, nor the ways in which that significance may vary depending on class background.The study set out to answer the research question: What is the significance of the vocational professional training process as a site of professional identity formation and professional socialisation for intending female solicitors? Using the Legal Practice Course (LPC) as a vehicle, the study obtained qualitative data by conducting semi-structured interviews with female students at four institutions. An initial study was conducted at one institution (n = 9) and the main data collection phase took place during the subsequent academic year, when students across three further institutions (n = 14) were interviewed as they began their LPC and again as they finished the course.The study is intersectional in nature and draws on concepts of professional identity and profession, together with those of field, capital and habitus. Its findings represent a contribution to debate about the professional project and suggest that VPT in its current form may reflect and thereby tacitly endorse or even exacerbate the professional status quo. The study’s findings contribute to knowledge in the field of legal professional identities and, although not generalisable, may provide a starting point for changes to aspects of the legal education and training process, and for future research
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The Wolfenden Report, homosexuality, and women
No full textIn 1957, the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, better known as the Wolfenden Committee, published its report. That publication retains a higher profile than many other legal developments of the 1950s thanks to its cultural as well as legal effects. Legislation implementing its recommendations – the Street Offences Act 1959 and Sexual Offences Act 1967 – remained in force for the remainder of the century. More profoundly, the Wolfenden Report encouraged the shift to a liberal approach for sexual offences law which remains influential in the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
This chapter focuses upon the part of the Report addressing homosexual offences, especially its implications for women. The Report is well-known for its recommendation that sexual activity between men should be partially decriminalised; this was eventually given legal effect by the 1967 Act. Academic analysis has also established its importance in importing the concepts of ‘homosexuality’ and ‘the homosexual’ into the law of England and Wales. Its significance for legal understandings of women’s same-sex relationships is less obvious, since it made no recommendations on these, and statute law on sex between women was unchanged. Indeed, ‘female homosexuality’ receives only passing mention in the Report. Nonetheless, this chapter argues that Wolfenden was a watershed moment for the regulation of sex between women, as well as for public perceptions of it. Lesbianism had previously been understood as a distinct phenomenon but was now reconceptualised as ‘female homosexuality’. This marked it as parallel to, but also less prevalent, less troublesome, and less sexual than, male homosexuality. The Wolfenden Report was therefore the start of a transformation in the wider approach of courts, Parliament, and broader campaigns whose repercussions continue to be felt today in both law and wider culture
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