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Re-thinking legal education in Central and Eastern Europe

Publication at Faculty of Law |
2018

Abstract

In this chapter, authors capitalize their experience with legal education in Poland, Belarus and Czech Republic to describe principles and tendencies, which can be observed in legal education and its reforms in Central and Eastern Europe. They come to the conclusion that legal education in this part of the world needs more emphasis on legal skills and values and less on legal knowledge, reduction of the size of law schools's seminar groups and of the state control and increase in funding, quality and quantity of pedagogic training of teachers and emphasis on alternative teaching methods including legal clinics.