Abstract

The transformation of legal education in Indonesia has become the study and anxiety of many legal experts in Indonesia. Legal education is seen as only producing law graduates who are no more legal craftsmen. Legal education ignores the ideologization of social justice values. Therefore, the transformation of higher legal education in Indonesia absolutely must be done by first carrying out an inventory of the main problems in the legal education system in Indonesia. This article attempts to perform an analysis of the description of the main problems in the legal education system and the steps that should be taken to hasten the transformation of higher legal education in Indonesia. Changes in the Legal Studies Curriculum and the transformation of the learning process that is more oriented towards humanizing lecturers and students have become an urgent need. One of the short-term offers is to make Legal Clinical Education as a compulsory subject in the Legal Studies Program. Whereas the other offer is transformation the Legal Studies Curriculum, Legal Learning Methods and Processes that are oriented in mastering the legal knowledge, legal skills, and law students' alignments on issues of law and justice.

Highlights

  • Nowadays, the chaotic state of governance of this country, corrupt behavior, vigilantism, and various bad behaviors of this nation, are imposed on universities

  • The International Symposium on Clinical Legal Education at Universitas Islam Indonesia on 20-23 September 2011 concluded that legal education ignores social justice

  • 'In our report, we have identified some topics which may be important for the planning of development of legal education '

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Summary

Introduction

The chaotic state of governance of this country, corrupt behavior, vigilantism, and various bad behaviors of this nation, are imposed on universities. In Indonesia - since the Reformation on "the legal state conception, legal politic, legal enforcement, and higher legal education", continues to be the relentless discourses and this even becomes daily fray. This excitement is about its law, and the response to the excitement of the law can come from anyone. This study, responds to the request of the Universitas Lampung's, Law Faculty of National Seminar Committee entitled "Pancasila-Based Legal Education as Legal Development Efforts in Indonesia" (Dec, 2nd, 2019), and the response to the importance of Social Justice with the Basis of Legal Education Reform, as the basic principle of legal development in Indonesia based on Pancasila. The writer wants to offer how to formulate Social Justice Based Education as the Foundation for Legal Development Based on Pancasila?

The Reason for Need of Legal Education Transformation
Legal Education at the Crossroad
Globalization and Transformation of Higher Law Education
Legal Clinic Education and Consortium of Legal Studies
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