Law Clinics in Taiwan: Can Clinical Legal Education Succeed in this Civil Law Jurisdiction with an Undergraduate Legal Education System?
Law school clinics are an important part of legal education around the world, but there are still many places without clinics, including Taiwan. It is important for Taiwanese legal educators to consider whether and how clinical education might fit into the Taiwanese legal education system. When discussing clinical education, several concerns are commonly raised: are undergraduate students capable of doing and benefitting from clinical work? Is student practice legal? What effect does student practice have on quality of representation? How does a clinic fit with the existing apprenticeship program? Who would teach a clinic? How do clinics fit with the legal academy’s view of itself and its purposes? Can Taiwanese law schools afford to operate clinics? Ultimately, none of these concerns presents a serious obstacle to the introduction of clinical education. Taiwanese law schools should introduce clinics to their curriculum to give students the opportunity to enjoy the many benefits of clinical education.
Reinventing Clinical Legal Education: Taiwanese Adaptation of an American Model
The clinical legal education movement began in earnest in the United States in the 1960s in response to student demands that their legal education serve marginalized communities. As clinical legal education became a mainstream element of American legal education, the focus moved from its service-based roots to an emphasis on education, particularly practical lawyering skills and professional values for lawyers. Law clinics in the United States have developed a standard model that works to achieve these objectives within the framework of the American legal system. The global spread of clinical legal education originated in the United States and has led to clinical programs around the world. The most successful exports are tailored to the local context. It is the concept of clinical legal education that travels best, not any particular model. Taiwan’s legal educators have resisted clinical education for a very long time, and there are several practical obstacles to implementing an American-style clinic. However, some existing models that have been created within the existing system would require only slight modification to be viable options for clinical education in Taiwan. The inchoate clinical movement in Taiwan will continue moving forward by developing models that, while reflecting the core objectives and concepts of the global clinical legal education movement, are absolutely Taiwanese.
Educational innovation in Musical Language Course: responses and the overcoming of limitations
This article presents an innovative methodological proposal for the development of auditory education in the course of the Language of Music. Based on this proposal, we analyze an educational community’s response to the innovations implemented, and we identify the limitations recognized throughout the learning and teaching process, as well as the strategies developed to overcome them. To this end, we applied a qualitative methodology with the classroom-based research method. The compilation of data was carried out through participant observation, captured in the journals of the professor and researcher, interviews and analysis of documents. The research results demonstrate that patience, responsibility and perseverance in their work on behalf of the professors have been key to overcoming the limitations identified and in promoting that students enjoy and learn their class contents in meaningful ways. Recibido 05/02/2018 Aceptado: 09/03/2018