Is legal education working?

LILI 2004 Student Competition

A student essay competition was run on the conference theme: 'Is legal education working?'. The winners were:

• Angela Johnson (Gonzaga University, USA) - Angela's entry focused on the "intangible relationship between legal educator and pupil". She was particularly critical of professors who 'preach' the law and calls on law teachers to make "positive changes in your interactions with students".
• Sarah Sargent (University of Leicester) - Sarah, a somewhat split personality who is studying for an LLM by distance learning while simulataneously practising and teaching the law, has a perhaps unique perspective. She concludes that her LLM studies have "filled several gaps that my American legal education had left", furthermore "helping to sharpen the legal skills I use daily in practice".
• Victoria Ward (BPP Law School) - Victoria 's entry embraced the potential that studying law offers, in terms both of future prospects and of the range of skills she has acquired. And there are other benefits – "I nearly always win arguments".

All three were invited to attend the conference free of charge, and the winning entries appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of Directions.

See the UKCLE Student Essay Competition page for further details of the competition.