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Mon 10 Oct 2009More practice needed in legal education
The preparation of students for law practice should play a greater role in legal education in Ireland, writes LARRY DONNELLY
HISTORICALLY, LAW study at third-level institutions in Ireland and in other common law jurisdictions was theory-based and took place exclusively in lecture halls. Law, however, is both an academic and a vocational discipline. Accordingly, law schools in every other common law jurisdiction have embraced the role of practice in legal education, but Irish law schools still lag far behind.
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