Legal clinics, a challenge for the teaching of law

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Published: Dec 28, 2018
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v5i3.3915

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Maria Joao Mimoso
Portucalense University, Portucalense Institute for Legal Research, R. Dr. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida, Porto, 541, 4200-072, Portugal
Maria do Rosario Anjos
University Institute of Maia—ISMAI, Portucalense Institute for Legal Research, Avenida Carlos de Oliveira Campos, Castelo da Maia, Maia, 4475-690, Portugal
Carlos Miranda
Inspector of the General Inspection of Education and Science, Rua Antonio Carneiro, Porto, 1404300-025, Portugal

Abstract

The teaching of law has experienced new challenges, especially with globalisation and the changes introduced by the Bologna process. However, it has been difficult to implement them before the insistence of the traditional methodology of expository lessons, deeply rooted in the cycles of law. One of the current challenging methodologies is the legal clinics, as a dynamic and providing tool for active learning and facilitating the acquisition of practical competences. The legal clinics offer the possibility of a teaching based on life cases, allowing students to observe the effective or simulated representation of legal cases, developing skills, also appealing to the values and ethics that are imposed on a future jurist, be a lawyer or a magistrate. The purpose of our study is to raise awareness of the paradigm shift in the teaching of law, especially in Portuguese schools. The legal clinics will raise awareness of civil society, instilling reliability in the legal services.


 


Keywords: Globalisation, law, legal clinics,teaching, methodologies.

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Mimoso, M. J., Anjos, M. do R., & Miranda, C. (2018). Legal clinics, a challenge for the teaching of law. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 5(3), 101–108. https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v5i3.3915
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Vol. 5 No. 3 (2018): Selected Papers of 9th World Conference on Learning, Teaching and Educational Leadership (WCLTA-2018)
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