Middlesex South and Massachusetts Medicine

Preparing for Practice: Clinical Legal Education Through the Lens of Legal Education Discourse

“…13 5 This paper is the second in a series of publications that will examine various aspects of legal education through the lens of legal education discourse. On the basis that it is necessary for each publication to include an overview of Foucauldian discourse theory and legal education discourse, this section is a direct duplication of the same in Jackson Walkden-Brown, 'Digesting Discourse: How Animal Law Facilitates High Quality Legal Education' (2017) 27(1) Legal Education Review (Article 10) <https://epublications.bond.edu.au/ler/vol27/ iss1/10>.…”

“…26 Accordingly, the initial focus of subject-based experiential learning in Australian law schools was social justice and community service, the core business of CLCs. 27 The 1987 Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission report regarding Australian legal education (typically referred to as the 'Pearce Report') based its extensive set of suggestions regarding the reform of legal education on the perceived lack of commitment by law schools to teaching and student dissatisfaction with the intellectual rigour of their law studies. 28 The Pearce Report paid little attention to the educational value of CLE and focused more on 'its contribution to skills development'.…”