Clinical Legal Education

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Description
The need for a clinical education handbook containing some basic material were felt at the training for legal trainers in the workshops under the UG sponsored academic staff college scheme. This handbook provides an introduction containing some ground rules and guidelines on clinical education, born out of the experiences of several professors teaching in clinical programmes at different law schools across the world. The book is divided into two parts, part one contains an overview of the goals, the need, and the concerns of clinical legal education. In the second part of the book, every chapter is written by an experienced clinical teacher in the context of the history and need of Indian legal education. Besides explaining the skills which go into interviewing and counseling techniques, negotiation strategies, case planning and preparation, trial advocacy and appellate lawyering, the essays give tips on how to organize the teaching of these skills both in the class room setting as well as in real client clinics. The practical methods for designing, supervising and evaluating simulation-based clinical courses, role-play exercises for students, critiquing clinical performance, etc. are also suggested. Appendices consist of Bar Council of India Rules, for professional conduct and procedure. The book is indeed indispensable to all those inclined to bring forth a clinical programme in their respective law schools. The book has now been translated into several international languages.
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Contents
Part I - overview of clinical legal education
1.    Clinical Legal Education : Concept and Concerns - by N.R. Madhava Menon
2.    The Clinical Method of Law Teaching - by Frank S. Block
3.    How to Learn Skills - Some Reflections - by O.K. Sampath
4.    Overview of the Skills and Values - Excerpts from the Report of the Task
       Force on Law Schools and the Profession, ABA (1992)
Part II - tasks in clinical legal education
5.    Case Planning and Strategy - by Frank S. Block
6.    Interviewing and Counselling - by V. Nagaraj & Frank Block
7.    Negotiation Theory and Skills : An introduction for Teachers and Students -
       by Don Peters
8.    Mediation : Concept and Techniques - by O.K. Sampath
9.    Designing Role-Play Simulations for Law Students - by Jane E. Schukoske
10.  Designing A Simulation-Based Clinical Course : Trial Advocacy -
       by N.R. Madhava Menon & Kenneth S. Gallant
11.  Ten Rules of Appellate Advocacy - by Hon. Justice M.D. Kirby
12.  Critiquing Clinical Performances - by Don Peters
13.  Field Placement Programmes - by Stacy Caplow, Mary Jo Eystel &
       Kenneth S. Gallant
14.  Computer Applications and Clinical Education in Law - by N.R. Madhava
       Menon and Frank S. Bloch
15.  Development of Clinical Teaching at the National Law School of India :
       An Experiment in Imparting Value Oriented Skills Training -
       by N.R. Madhava Menon & V. Nagaraj
16.  Implementing Clinical Legal Education : A Checklist for Programme Design -
       by Kenneth S. Gallant
17.  Evaluation : Assessing Students in Live-Client Clinics - by Marlene J. Le Brun
Part III - appendices
1.    The Bar Council of India Training Rules, 1995
2.    Code of Ethics for Advocates
Subject Index
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Author Details
Dr. N.R. Madhava Menon, Professor of Law, Founder-Director, National Law School of India University President, Commonwealth Legal Education Association Member, Law Commission of India
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