“Harmonizing Current Threats: Using the Outcry for Legal Education Reforms to Take Another Look at Civil Gideon and What it Means to be an American Lawyer”

Authors

Cathryn A. Miller-Wilson, Villanova University School of LawFollow

Comments

Forthcoming in the Spring, 2013 Volume of the University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class

Abstract

Drawing from the broad and varied literature on legal ethics, the paper demonstrates that legal education and access to justice concerns can and should be addressed simultaneously in our current political and economic climate. Current threats to legal education, and to lawyering in general, present an opportunity for legal education transformation. Applying legal ethics theory to an analysis of these threats provides support for the creation of teaching law firms, similar in size and scope to teaching hospitals, that will employ clinical teaching methodology, substantially enhance ethics teaching and significantly address the issue of access to justice.

Disciplines

Education Law | Law | Legal Education | Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility | Legal Profession

Date of this Version

Spring 2013

Recommended Citation

Miller-Wilson, Cathryn A., "“Harmonizing Current Threats: Using the Outcry for Legal Education Reforms to Take Another Look at Civil Gideon and What it Means to be an American Lawyer”" (2013). Working Paper Series. 179.
https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/wps/art179