Event Title
Taking an Integrated View of Legal Education and Licensure
Location
FIU College of Law, Grand Courtroom
Start Date
13-4-2018 10:00 AM
End Date
13-4-2018 11:15 AM
Chair and Moderator
Joan Howarth, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas, and Dean Emerita and Professor of Law, Michigan State University
Description
As the practice of law has changed in response to technological advances, globalization, economic pressures, and other forces, the knowledge, skills, values, and traits that legal employers seek in law graduates have diverged from what law schools have traditionally taught. This panel will explore the implications of this gap and how law school curricula, law practice, and the bar exam can be better aligned. What should remain of the core of law school curriculum, and where might the bar exam be changed? If more time in law school is needed to address these matters, is the profession and are the licensing entities prepared to rethink the bar exam to make space in law school J.D. programs to respond to these concerns?
Taking an Integrated View of Legal Education and Licensure
FIU College of Law, Grand Courtroom
As the practice of law has changed in response to technological advances, globalization, economic pressures, and other forces, the knowledge, skills, values, and traits that legal employers seek in law graduates have diverged from what law schools have traditionally taught. This panel will explore the implications of this gap and how law school curricula, law practice, and the bar exam can be better aligned. What should remain of the core of law school curriculum, and where might the bar exam be changed? If more time in law school is needed to address these matters, is the profession and are the licensing entities prepared to rethink the bar exam to make space in law school J.D. programs to respond to these concerns?