Challenges in the Design of Legal Ethics Learning Systems: An Educational Perspective

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Challenges in the Design of Legal Ethics Learning Systems: An Educational Perspective MICHAEL ROBERTSON "[T]he current state of professional ethics instruction leaves much to be desired. In most law schools, it is relegated to a single required course that ranks low on the academic pecking order. Many of these courses, which focus primarily (and uncritically) on bar disciplinary rules, constitute the functional equivalent of 'legal ethics without the ethics', and leave future practitioners without the foundations for reflective judgment. Although ethical issues arise in every subject, that would not be apparent from the core curriculum. .. " * Associate Professor, Griffith Law School, Queensland, Australia. The author thanks Richard Johnstone and two anonymous rcfcrccs for thcir commcnts on an carlicr draft. 1 D. Rhode, "If Integrity is the Answer, What is the Question?" (2003) 72 Fordham Law Review 333, 340, corn mcnting on American law school cducation. 2 Ethics teaching in law school is challenging for man) other reasons that ma) hav e little to do with the matters raiscd in this article; scc, for cxamplc,

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