Contemporary Challenges in Clinical Legal Education

Matthew Atkinson is Senior Lecturer and Managing Solicitor of the Legal Advice Clinic, University of South Australia, Australia. Ben Livings is Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Evidence, University of South Australia, Australia.

1. Introduction 2. Clinic for All: Implementing a Clinical Guarantee 3. Supporting Reflective Practice and Writing in Clinical Legal Education in a Digital Technological Era 4. Clinic Is a Constructivist, Inquiry-Based Learning Environment: Lessons for the Start of Law School – Re-imagining an Immersive Induction 5. An Estate and Disability Planning Clinic: Teaching Transactional Drafting to Harness Strengths and Effectuate Choice 6. Reflection, Self-Awareness, and Cultural Competency as a Foundational Pedagogy for Clinical Legal Education 7. Preventing Vicarious Trauma and Encouraging Self-Care in Clinical Legal Teaching 8. The Emotional Impact of Law Clinic Supervision: An Autoethnography 9. Policy Clinic as a Method to Engage Students With Law Reform and Social Justice: Experiences from Northumbria Law School’s Student Law Office 10. Clinical Legal Education and Law Reform 11. Teaching in Community 12. How Working with Entrepreneurs Makes Law Students Into Happier, Healthier Lawyers 13. Clinic – Fit for practice? 14. Emerging Themes in CLE Pedagogy: Where to Next?