Calling of Law

Fiona Westwood qualified as a solicitor in 1976 and practised for more than 20 years as a commercial lawyer. Since 2000, she has been involved in post-graduate vocational skills development where her particular areas of research, business and academic publications relate to practice leadership and management, professionalism and the development of professional judgement. In addition to running her own management consultancy, Westwood Associates, she is the Director of Continuing Professional Education, the School of Law, the University of Glasgow. Karen Barton has had a long-term interest in teaching and learning; e-learning; professional learning and the use of IT within legal practice, and as a result, has published widely and carried out a number of funded research projects in these areas. She has led a number of innovative teaching and learning projects involving transactional, web-based simulations as well as multimedia and webcast environments and is currently the Head of UH Online, the University of Hertfordshire’s Centre for Online Distance Learning. The editors have collaborated and published successfully together since 2004.

• Introduction, Karen Barton; Part II Calling; Chapter 1 The Global Contest for Legal Education, John Flood; Chapter 2 Vocational Legal Education — Its Pivotal Role in the Future of the Legal Profession, Fiona Westwood; Part III Character and Conscientiousness; Chapter 3 Calling, Character and Clinical Legal Education: Inculcating a Love for Justice from Cradle to Grave, Donald Nicolson; Chapter 4 Public Interest Vocationalism: A Way Forward for Legal Education in Canada, Richard Devlin, Jocelyn Downie; Part IV Contract; Chapter 5 Professions and their Social Contracts: A Basis for Teaching Lessons of Professionalism from Medicine, Sylvia R. Cruess, Richard L. Cruess; Chapter 6 Enabling Fitness to Practice in Medical Education, Sam Leinster; Part V Culture; Chapter 7 Collaboration: A Crucible for Cultivating Common Understanding in Professional Legal Education, Craig Collins, Suzanne Webbey; Chapter 8 Standardized Clients in Asia — University of Hong Kong's Experience, Wilson Chow; Chapter 9 Teaching Professionalism Online — An Australian Professional Legal Education Experience, Margie Rowe, Moira Murray; Chapter 10 We Must Make Law Students Client-ready, John Burwell Garvey, Anne F. Zinkin;

’At a time of great change within the legal profession and legal education this book provides a valuable resource for all those who wish to navigate those changes. The multidisciplinary and international approach provides a broad spectrum of material to draw upon. I recommend its use to help inform the design of courses.’ David Amos, City University London, UK ’By seeking to reinvigorate the notion of law as a calling, this thought-provoking collection of essays, authored by an international group of experts in legal and medical education, takes seriously the complexities of embedding ethics and professionalism in the law curriculum, and offers some important examples of transformative interventions using live clinic, simulation and technology-enhanced learning. Above all, however, it serves as a timely reminder that vocational legal education is more than just a discrete phase of training: it demands a larger commitment by educators to developing a state of mind and set of value commitments in students throughout the educational process.’ Julian Webb, University of Warwick, UK ’All the chapters are well put together and persuasive and each provides a comprehensive bibliography at the end... the book is a thought-provoking collection of essays and one which I would recommend to anyone with an interest in legal education, the legal professions and the future of legal services.’ The Law Teacher