Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
This essay reflects upon the work that U.S. clinical teachers have done in helping to bring clinical methodology to law schools in European civil law jurisdictions. The essay examines some of the differences between the U.S. common law and European civil law systems with respect to the conception, teaching, and practice of law. The essay suggests that U.S. clinical teachers have not been sufficiently sensitive to these differences in legal culture. The essay describes five core differences between the two systems and their implications for effective clinical education in civil law systems. The essay concludes with recommendations for future cross-cultural pedagogical collaboration between U.S. clinical teachers and their European colleagues.
Disciplines
Comparative and Foreign Law | Law | Legal Education
Recommended Citation
Philip Genty,
Overcoming Cultural Blindness in International Clinical Collaboration: The Divide between Civil and Common Law Cultures and its Implications for Clinical Education,
15
Clinical L. Rev.
131
(2008).
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