‘Education, education, education’: Legal, moral and clinical

Abstract

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Legal education, ethics and access to justice: forging warriors for justice in a neo-liberal world

“…If these arguments about the importance of ATJ in legal education are persuasive, they raise the question of where to locate ATJ in the curriculum and how we might inspire students to take ATJ seriously. I will concentrate largely on the latter issue since my views on the former largely track those I have previously expressed on teaching ethics at the academic stage of legal education, namely that ethics should be taught both pervasively and in compulsory stand-alone classes, and then backed up through live-client clinical experience (Nicolson 2008). While pervasive teaching will expose students to the ubiquitous nature of ATJ obstacles and how the law taught in the rest of the curriculum actually operates in practice, unless taugth voluntarily, academics are likely to surreptitiously (or even not so surreptitiously) undermine the intended message and hence necessitate a stand-alone class.…”

Justicia alternativa e identidades múltiples del abogado. Impacto de un currículo.

“…Aun con los matices que puede haber a lo largo del mundo, se reconoce la necesidad de fortalecer ciertos conocimientos durante la formación del abogado, no solo al incorporar la enseñanza de metodologías para aplicar la JA, sino también para fomentar la ética y los valores en este grupo de profesionales (Darian-Smith, 2016; Kelley y Kiršiene, 2015; Dagilyte y Coe, 2014; Waters, 2017), así como la moral (Nicolson, 2008); como si el carácter del abogado en tiempos globales no estuviera forjado en una predisposición a actuar con justicia y prudencia, virtudes necesarias para la gestión de los con ictos acorde a la Justicia Alternativa (Brubaker et al, 2014). Ya que la ética es intersubjetiva, puesto que la sociedad es quien brinda las pautas de lo que está bien o no, una sociedad Todas las implicaciones que conlleva la JA en el quehacer del abogado pueden generar diferentes apreciaciones emocionales.…”

“…Norte (Brubaker, Noble, Fincher y Press, 2014), de manera interconectada con la actuación del abogado en el mundo. A partir del surgimiento de los MASC, el abogado está enfrentando ciertos desafíos en su rol de actuación, debido a que las habilidades cognitivas de la educación legal convencional no son su cientes para la resolución de con ictos (James, 2008;Darian-Smith, 2016;Nicolson, 2008). Frente a este panorama los abogados requieren otras habilidades blandas que faciliten la aplicación de los MASC, con el análisis positivista del con icto hacia una visión constructivista, acorde con una mirada hermenéutica del con icto para atender las demandas legales que implica la JA (Ruiz, 2021).…”

It Ain't Necessarily So: A Legal Realist Perspective on the Law of Agency Work

“…One need only to refer to the multitude of examples in the corporate realm, in spheres ranging from privacy to tax evasion, in which a common response to charges of dubious practices is that the company has 'done nothing illegal'. 149 Leaving to one side the sad (and obviously misguided) conflation of legality and morality (and thus the argument that if a practice is not illegal, it is necessarily not immoral 150 ), the question is: should the courts take into account such consequences of their decisions and internalise them into their legal reasoning? To clarify, we are no longer concerned here with the narrow, immediate implication of the decision, eg to deny employment status, and therefore employment rights, to marginalised workers.…”