Download This PaperTeaching 'Public Interest Vocationalism': Law as a Case Study
Educating professionals: Ethics and Judgement in Changing Learning Environment, pp. 135-150, University of Toronto, 2015) 135-150
9 Pages Posted: 23 Jan 2016
Date Written: March 5, 2015
Abstract
In this short essay, we present law as a case study of teaching professionalism in the public interest. Our hope is that the accountancy profession, as well as other professions (including law), will be prompted to reflect on the potential for the concept of public-interest vocationalism to at least inform, if not transform, education in their domains. The argument proceeds in three stages. In Part I, we set the context by identifying a number of profound challenges now facing Canadian legal education. In Part II, we introduce the concept of, and provide a justification for, public-interest vocationalism. In Part III, we provide a model of how legal education could be reformed in order to reflect, accommodate, and engender public-interest vocationalism.
Keywords: teaching, professionalism, vocationalism, public interest
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