The University of Hong Kong's New Pcll

Hong Kong Law Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1, p. 381, 2002

Posted: 28 Aug 2006

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Felix Wai Hon Chan

The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law

Wilson Chow

The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law

Stephen Nathanson

The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law

Abstract

A recent review of legal education criticised Hong Kong's professional legal education programme (the PCLL). The review said that the PCLL was not doing a good enough job in preparing students for legal practice. This paper responds to the review by outlining proposals for a new PCLL. The proposals are based on the premise that professional legal education needs to develop students' ability to learn new skills after graduation. This is a complicated, but crucial, educational goal that is more easily understood with the help of concepts such as problem solving and transfer of learning. The paper argues that if the PCLL is designed to enable students to transfer problem solving skills from one legal context to another then students will more easily be able to transfer what they have learned in the programme to new problems in legal practice. To achieve this goal, however, requires painstaking effort in constructing several interdependent, curriculum-design features that other programmes around the world have used successfully.

Suggested Citation

Chan, Felix Wai Hon and Chow, Wilson and Nathanson, Stephen, The University of Hong Kong's New Pcll. Hong Kong Law Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1, p. 381, 2002, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=926686

Felix Wai Hon Chan (Contact Author)

The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law ( email )

Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
China

HOME PAGE: http://hub.hku.hk/rp/rp01280

Wilson Chow

The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law ( email )

Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
China

HOME PAGE: http://hub.hku.hk/rp/rp01282

Stephen Nathanson

The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law

Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
China

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