ERIC Number: EJ1219264
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Jun
Pages: 2
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ISSN: EISSN-2379-9307
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Barriers to Adaptation in Legal Education and the Critical Importance of Simply Caring
McGreal, Paul E.
Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership, v5 n1 p36-37 Jun 2019
In her provocative book "Rules for a Flat World", Professor Gillian Hadfield makes the important point that our ossified legal system does not meet the needs of our dynamic society. And she rightly notes that legal education is not an ally in meeting this challenge. To move forward, then, legal education must innovate. This essay offers the modest hunch that non-profit higher education can innovate at lower cost by mimicking the successes of their for-profit peers, in effect leveraging for-profit higher education as a form of research and development. Even if this hunch has some validity, though, it does not say what shape that innovation will take, and whether it can promote the needed change that Professor Hadfield urges.
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Educational Innovation, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Caring, Student Centered Learning, Law Schools, Research and Development
Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership. 2500 California Plaz, Omaha, NE 68178. e-mail: CJIL@creighton.edu; Web site: http://www.creighton.edu/cjil
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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