Abstract
<p>The article focuses on real client clinical work with participating students being supervised by lawyer academics while also referring to other models. This model has enabled clinics to retain a strong commitment to community service whilst also facilitating close work with small groups of students.</p>
Highlights
The evening edition of the Melbourne Herald for Saturday, January 7, 1933 contains what is probably the first Australian reference to the clinical teaching of law students.[1]
The number of law schools in Australia expanded dramatically following a range of reforms to the university sector in 1987.57 Interest in clinical legal education was reactivated with a number of the newly established ‘third wave’ law schools considering the establishment of clinical programs
The establishment in 1997 of the Southern Communities Advocacy Law Education Service (SCALES) by Murdoch University is significant in the development of Australian clinical legal education in several respects
Summary
The evening edition of the Melbourne Herald for Saturday, January 7, 1933 contains what is probably the first Australian reference to the clinical teaching of law students.[1] Frank Russell, a lawyer, noted that, unlike medical clinics which provided ‘the finest medical attention to the suffering poor’, legal clinics were not well known in Australia. Australian clinical legal education programs (CLE) have tended to make use of this model since the establishment of the clinical program at Monash University in 1975. The article focuses on real client clinical work with participating students being supervised by lawyer academics while referring to other models. This model has enabled clinics to retain a strong commitment to community service whilst facilitating close work with small groups of students. Russell, ‘How to Educate Young Lawyers: Legal Clinics in the U.S.A.’ Herald, Saturday Evening, January 7, 1933
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