Transforming Legal Education as an Imperative in Today's World

Abstract

This chapter of Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World includes contributions by several authors:

• Section A, A Conscious Institutional Strategy for Expanding Experiential Education, by Lisa Radtke Bliss & Deborah Maranville.
• Section B, Faculty Status and Institutional Effectiveness, by Deborah Maranville, Ruth Anne Robbins & Kristen K. Tiscione.
• Leadership and Curricular Change, by Martin J. Katz & Kenneth R. Margolis.

Chapter 1 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637100

Chapter 2 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637068

Chapter 3 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637102

Chapter 4 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637490

Chapter 5 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637495

Chapter 6 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637499

Chapter 7 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637541

The content of this SSRN posting is material that was published in the book Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World, Maranville, et al., Lexis Nexis 2015. The content has been posted on SSRN with the express permission of Lexis Nexis and of Carolina Academic Press, publisher of the book as of January 1, 2016.

Keywords: law schools, legal education, experiential learning, clinical law, faculty status, tenure, curricular reform