Clinical Legal Education: A Textbook For Law School Clinical Programs - Softcover

David F. Chavkin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158360779X ISBN 13: 9781583607794

Publisher: Anderson Pub Co, 2002

Synopsis

This textbook was created to provide a new tool for clinical teachers. It links together the central lawyering skills and values that are part of any clinical experience. Clinical Legal Education was written with a concentration on the Theory of the Client - a broadening of "case theory" to encompass all of the legal and non-legal approaches that can be used to advance one or more of a client's goals. Rather than defining prescriptive approaches to lawyering tasks, each chapter explores a number of "choice moments," those points at which a lawyer's choices will affect the scope and nature of the representation. Clinical Legal Education will help students learn to identify those moments and to effectively reach and implement decisions with their clients.In recognition of the realities of the clinical teaching experience, the text is less than 200 pages and is easily adaptable to a variety of clinic settings and class formats. It covers necessary skills in Interviewi

About this edition

• Publisher: Anderson Pub Co
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 158360779X
• ISBN 13: 9781583607794
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 169