04 November 2020

LawRules #7: We need to talk about Legal Education

We need to talk about legal education. As the last couple of episodes of our podcast have demonstrated, preserving the rule of law depends to a large quantity on people working in legal professions. What prosecutors, judges, attorneys, and, to a large degree, people working in the executive branch have in common, is a law degree. This means that we have to turn to legal education itself in order to find answers to the question how rule of law systems may remain or become resilient against authoritarian backsliding. Are current legal education systems in the EU equipped for this task? How are they affected by the turn to authoritarianism and illiberalism in a number of member states? And what are intrinsic shortcomings of academic and professional legal education?

This is what we talk about in this week’s episode with our distinguished guests.

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SUGGESTED CITATION  O'Regan, Attracta, Mangold, Anna Katharina, Tóth, Gábor Attila, Urbanik, Jakub; Kokott, Lennart: LawRules #7: We need to talk about Legal Education, VerfBlog, 2020/11/04, https://verfassungsblog.de/lawrules-7-we-need-to-talk-about-legal-education/, DOI: 10.17176/20201104-115642-0.

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