Forgotten? The Role of Graduate Legal Education in the Future of the Law Faculty

26 Pages Posted: 21 Aug 2014

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Rosalie Jukier

McGill University - Faculty of Law

Kate Glover Berger

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Date Written: 2014

Abstract

In this article, the authors argue that the longstanding trend of excluding graduate studies in law from the discourse on legal education has detrimental effects on both the discourse and the future of the law faculty. More specifically, disregarding graduate legal education is at odds with the reality of graduate studies in Canadian law faculties today, ignores the challenges of graduate programs in law, and perpetuates inaccurate distinctions about both the career aspirations of law students and the relationship between undergraduate and graduate legal studies. In the authors’ view, these concerns can be overcome by reframing the discourse. Once the purpose of legal education is understood to be the cultivation of jurists and the law faculty is seen as an integrated whole of people, place, and program, graduate legal education moves easily into the discussion on the future of the law faculty. Including graduate studies in the discourse is an opportunity to explore, and be hopeful about, the institutional missions of law faculties and their place in the university, the optimization of legal education at all levels, and the methods by which participants in graduate studies should fulfill their responsibilities to the future of the discipline.

Keywords: legal education

Suggested Citation

Jukier, Rosalie and Glover Berger, Kate, Forgotten? The Role of Graduate Legal Education in the Future of the Law Faculty (2014). Alberta Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, 761 (2014), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2483934

Rosalie Jukier (Contact Author)

McGill University - Faculty of Law ( email )

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Kate Glover Berger

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University ( email )

4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
Canada

HOME PAGE: http://https://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty-and-staff/glover-berger-kate/

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