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Record W2573199049 · doi:10.1177/2322005816669606

Teaching Law for the Real World:

2017· article· en· W2573199049 on OpenAlexaff
Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter

Bibliographic record

VenueAsian Journal of Legal Education · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal Education and Practice Innovations
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCurriculumLegal educationGeneral partnershipLawLegal professionCommercial lawPolitical scienceLegal researchComparative lawSociology

Abstract

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This article looks at changes which need to be made on two levels. First, on the role of law schools: in terms of practitioners, a new thought process should be developed at law schools to bring on board practitioners either as full-time faculty members or sessionals to teach law courses, and this would help bridge the gap between academia and the legal profession. In terms of curriculum, there is a need to update curriculum and course choices to include some necessary courses that should be considered part of any law programme. In terms of global understanding, law schools should not only offer more international law courses, but can simply incorporate comparative law into existing courses, and study abroad programmes would be an asset to form more international legal understanding. In terms of practicums, there should be a practical component added to law courses to allow for the students to learn day-to-day skills one would encounter in practicing law, including the legal implications of running a company, managing a staff and dealing with stakeholders and boards of directors, and a partnership within universities beyond the faculty of law to incorporate other departments would be of benefit to students who would like to use their law degrees in other fields. Second, on the role of the bar associations and the law society: mentoring programmes are essential in the teaching of law and are so often overlooked, and a mentoring partnership should be created between bar associations or law societies and law schools, which would not only allow for an increased learning experience invaluable to the student but it would also allow students to be better prepared for when they graduate, allowing for a better transition from law school to law practice. The ability of an organization, especially a learning organization like a university or a college of law, to learn from its past is the key to growth for its present and survival for its future for a better legal profession.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.966
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.053
GPT teacher head0.462
Teacher spread0.409 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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