Professional accrediting and regulating bodies are increasingly trying to delineate the knowledge and skills needed for entry-to-practice for quality assurance and international labor mobility. The purpose of this study was to compare how professions describe and represent competence. Current, publicly accessible Canadian entry-to-practice…

This paper discusses a current project to develop open educational resources (OER) for legislative counsel in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. The project is the latest step in a 20-year old distance education program for those professionals. The paper explores best practices for investment in freely available OER for use by professionals…

Recent law school graduates face the tightest job market in years. Amid lingering industrywide uncertainties, officials at some law schools are scrambling to ensure that underrepresented minorities get jobs, especially law schools not customarily tapped by the country's largest law firms. In some of the more striking measures, a dean will troop…

This paper examines the focus on formal training and proposes a new way of incorporating communities of practice into professional development. It describes formal and informal learning found in organizations and discusses the implications of using communities of practice to foster professional development. Data collection involved observations in…

This study was directed toward an examination of the legal manpower system and its response to needs in Pennsylvania. Information based on surveys is presented on: (1) lawyer-population ratios by counties, lawyer-area ratios by counties, and lawyer ratios to population and area in the State; (2) legal manpower demand in terms of correlations…

Describes various ways to practice law such as private practice, corporate law, public interest law, and government law. Talks about salaries, promotion potential, workload, and typical days for lawyers. (JOW)

This report outlines the various activities of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and therefore the purpose of the Association. The activities appear to fall into 5 general categories: (1) educational developments, including student components, faculty appointments, academic freedom and tenure, accreditation, admissions to the bar,…

This report presents an overall picture of legal education available in Texas in 1964. Chapter 1 discusses the history of legal education in the State and reviews the procedures and requirements for being admitted to the Texas Bar. Chapter 2 presents brief descriptions of the faculty, students, curriculum, and facilities of Texas' 3 State…

Speech delivered by Erwin N. Griswold, Solicitor General of the United States, at the American Association of Law Schools Convention in New York, December 29, 1972. (Editor)

The authors build a case for a broader-based legal education that would give special emphasis to the humanities and the social sciences as these fields bear on the study of law. Their major recommendation for the future of legal education can be summed up in one word: diversity. The new kind of legal education they propose would orient itself to…

Describes a course concerning the judicial profession and its five principal areas of discussion: (1) the selection of adjudicators, (2) their independence institutionally and individually, (3) their conduct in their capacity as adjudicators both on and off the bench, (4) their nonadjudicative responsibilities, and (5) the sanctions at hand to…

Studies sibling positions of law and medical students at one university and concludes that first born children have special qualifications and/or motivations to enter professions. (Author/PG)

Political science has new approaches, methodologies, and substantive knowledge to contribute to legal education, and political science can serve as a model for the use and utility of behavioral methods in addressing many of the same questions and materials discussed in law schools.