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Legal Education: Teaching and Learning Law

This guide provides a collection of resources on the topic of legal education.

Journals

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Canadian Legal Education Annual Review

The peer-reviewed annual publication of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. The aim of the journal is to foster scholarly exchange on issues related to legal education relevant to Canadian legal educators, professors, graduate students, and those interested in legal education. In particular, the journal aims to encourage critical and scholarly reflection on the aspirations, goals, objectives, values, and cultures of legal education, and the processes of legal education.

Clinical Law Review

A semi-annual peer-edited journal devoted to issues of lawyering theory and clinical legal education. The Review is jointly sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA), and New York University School of Law.

International Journal of Clinical Legal Education

An international peer reviewed open access journal devoted to the field of clinical legal education. The journal focuses on three main themes: Clinic, the University and Society (addressing the role of clinic as an instrument for civic engagement, access to justice and societal change), Teaching and Learning in Clinic investigating the curriculum, pedagogy and assessment used to prepare students for and support students during their clinical experience), and Research and Impact (focusing on the evidence base for clinical education and will explore the weight of evidence and the knowledge claims).

Journal of Legal Education

A quarterly publication of the Association of American Law Schools. The primary purpose of the journal is to foster a rich interchange of ideas and information about legal education and related matters, including but not limited to the legal profession, legal theory, and legal scholarship.

Legal Education Review

Established in 1989, the Legal Education Review (LER) is an independent, open access and refereed journal. Its objectives are to encourage and disseminate research into legal education and to stimulate discussion, debate and experimentation on topics related to legal education.