Clinical legal education is not widely known in the United Kingdom. It combines academic work at undergraduate level with practical assistance to needy people who cannot afford legal services.
Lord Burnett of Maldon, lord chief justice of England and Wales, and Lord Burrows, a justice of the UK Supreme Court, were introduced to the concept when they visited the Hebrew University of Jerusalem law faculty at the end of last month. They spoke to academics and students at the university’s Clinical Legal Education Centre.
Both judges were clearly impressed with what they heard. Burnett observed that students at British universities were unlikely to study practical law in such fine detail. Burrows, the first academic appointed direct to the UK’s highest court, said he would encourage British universities to add this perspective to the courses they provided.
You can listen to a lightly edited recording of their discussion on this podcast.
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