Educating for Justice: Social Values and Legal Education

by Jeremy Cooper (Editor), Louise G. Trubek (Editor)

The fundamental topic of this book is that legal education matters. The primary function of law is to uphold the values of a humane and civilized society. The maintainance of the social values in law may require lawyers to use law proactively, and therefore law teachers need to develop amongst their students an appropriate spirit of enquiry and social awareness. The interface between law school and social change lawyering is a dynamic source of creative energy. This source of energy is explored in this book, and the fulfilling role the law school can play in developing, transmitting and understanding the use of law to bring about social change to the advantage of subordinate people. It is within the law school that the most promising and dynamic initiatives to develop social change lawyering are born, though equally the process of legal education can hinder this. The essays presented in this book highlight the extent to which awareness of social values affects every aspect of legal education, and cover clinical legal education, environmental law, human rights law, legal ethics, and case studies.

311 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Jeremy Cooper is a writer and art historian, author of six previous novels and several works of non-fiction, including the standard work on nineteenth century furniture, studies of young British artists in the 1990s, and, in 2019, the British Museum's catalogue of artists' postcards. Early on he appeared in the first twenty-four of BBC's Antiques Roadshow and, in 2018, won
the first Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Ash before Oak.