Teaching about Justice as Well as LAW

See <www.gaje.org> and McCrimmon Les , ‘Transforming Legal Education into Justice Education: GAJE’, (2000) 76 Reform 48.

For a taste see: Johnson T. , Professions and Power, MacMillan, 1972; Carr-Saunders A.M. Wilson P.A. , The Professions, Oxford University Press, 1933; Larsen M.S. , The Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis, University of California Press, 1977.

Larsen M.S. , above, ref 2.

Legal Practice Act 1996 (Vic); Legal Profession Act 1993 (Tas); Legal Practitioners Act 1893 (WA); Legal Practitioners Act 1981 (SA); Legal Profession Act 1987 (NSW); Law Society Act 1952 (Qld).

Larsen M.S. , above, ref 2, p.59 and Parker S. , ‘Why Lawyers Should Do Pro Bono Work’, (2001) 19 Law in Context 9.

The University of New South Wales has had a compulsory course within its law degree since 1974.

Submission of Australian Law School Deans to the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission Assessment Committee for the Discipline of Law (the Pearce Committee), April 1986, para 26.

Report of the Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap Legal Education and Professional Development — an Educational Continuum, American Bar Association 1992 (the MacCrate Report), and see, American Bar Association, In the Spirit of Public Service: A Blueprint for the Rekindling of Professionalism, 1986.

Committee Responding to Recommendation 49 of the Systems of Civil Justice Task Force Report, Attitudes-Skills-Knowledge: Proposals for Legal Education to Assist in Implementing a Multi-option Civil Justice System in the 21st Century, DP, Canadian Bar Association, Ottawa, 1999, p.48.

For example, Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Cost of Legal Services and Litigation, DP#5 Legal Ethics, 1992, Access to Justice Advisory Committee Access to Justice: An Action Plan 1994.

Law Council of Australia, 2010: A Discussion Paper: Challenges to the Legal Profession, 2001 and a number of high profile cases raising questions of ethical conduct.

For example (2001) 12 (nos1 & 2) Legal Education Review; Economides Kim (ed.), Ethical Challenges to Legal Education and Conduct, Hart Publishing, Oxford 1998; (1995) 58 Law and Contemporary Problems.

Australian Law Reform Commission, Managing Justice: A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System, Final Report, AGPS, 2000, p.142.

(1991) 41 Journal of Legal Education 3.

Parker , above, ref 5.

For discussion of this see eg, Edwards Harry T. , 'The Role of Legal Education in Shaping the Profession, (1988) 38 Journal of Legal Education 285; Blasi Gary , ‘Teaching/Lawyering as an Intellectual Project’, (1996) 14 Journal of Professional Legal Education 65 and the various essays in Cooper J. Trubek L. (eds) Educating for Justice: Social Values in Legal Education, Ashgate, 1997.

Maresh S. , ‘The Impact of Clinical Legal Education on the Decisions of Law Students to Practice Public Interest Law’ in Cooper Trubek (eds), above, ref 16.

See, Dickson J.A. , ‘Students in Court: Competent and Ethical Advocates,’ (1998) 16 Journal of Professional Legal Education 155 for a brief recounting of the histories.

Noone M.A. , ‘Australian Community Legal Centres—the University Connection’ in Cooper Trubek (eds) above, ref 16.

Blasi Gary , above, ref 16, p 73.

Meili S. , ‘Legal Education in Argentina and Chile’ in Cooper J. Trubek L. , Educating for Justice Around the World: Legal Education, Legal Practice and the Community, Dartmouth, 1999.

Gallant Ken , ‘Learning from Communities: Lessons from India on Clinical Method and Liberal Education’, in Cooper Trubek (eds), above, ref 16, p.222.

Dhavan R. , ‘Whose Law? Whose Interest?’ in Cooper J. Dhavan R. (eds), Public Interest Law, Blackwell, 1987.

MacCrate Report, above, ref 8.