Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Goals of Legal Education
- Part Two Law School Governance
- Part Three Optimal Academic Curricula and Teaching Methods
- Chapter 3 Interactive Teaching Methodologies in Ukrainian Legal Education: Balancing between State of the Art and a Newfangled Whim
- Chapter 4 The Challenges of Higher Legal Education in the Kyrgyz Republic and the Peculiarities of Educational Process at the AUCA Law Department
- Chapter 5 The Environmental Law Clinic: A New Experience in Legal Education in Spain
- Chapter 6 The Judicial Practice Center: The Connection between Theory and Socially Responsible Professional Practice
- Part Four The Academic Career in Law
- Appendix
Chapter 6 - The Judicial Practice Center: The Connection between Theory and Socially Responsible Professional Practice
from Part Three - Optimal Academic Curricula and Teaching Methods
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Goals of Legal Education
- Part Two Law School Governance
- Part Three Optimal Academic Curricula and Teaching Methods
- Chapter 3 Interactive Teaching Methodologies in Ukrainian Legal Education: Balancing between State of the Art and a Newfangled Whim
- Chapter 4 The Challenges of Higher Legal Education in the Kyrgyz Republic and the Peculiarities of Educational Process at the AUCA Law Department
- Chapter 5 The Environmental Law Clinic: A New Experience in Legal Education in Spain
- Chapter 6 The Judicial Practice Center: The Connection between Theory and Socially Responsible Professional Practice
- Part Four The Academic Career in Law
- Appendix
Summary
Introduction
Living in the twenty-first century means that everything looks different from even twenty years ago. The progress of the modern world brings change to every field of everyday life and challenges that every person needs to face and respond to with flexibility. The competitive nature of today's higher legal education accelerates the pace of development – from theoretical to more practical models, and from national to international legal knowledge. Clinical legal education (CLE) can fill some gaps in higher legal education and can help create future lawyers who are qualified, educated, and socially responsible professionals in a modern world.
This chapter describes one of the new inventions in clinical legal education teaching programs in Poland – the Judicial Practice Center (JPC). The JPC was established three years ago as a part of the Legal Clinic at the Faculty of Law, University of Białystok, and offers a new way to connect theory and practice with the objective of preparing students to be creative, professional, and socially responsible lawyers in the future – lawyers who can easily work in a modern world.
Polish CLE and the example of its innovative teaching method
In the last ten years, clinical legal education in Poland has established, developed, and strengthened its position within university structures. The position of legal clinics is so strong in the country that it was possible to create a network of twenty-four legal clinics.
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- The New Law SchoolReexamining Goals, Organization and Methods for a Changing World, pp. 73 - 78Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2010