Regent
University School of Law continues to advance its commitment to
student-centered learning.
The school was recently granted membership in Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers (ETL), a selective consortium of 24 law schools under the auspices of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS). ETL’s goal is to facilitate and encourage best practices in legal education in order to train new lawyers to the highest standards of competence and professionalism.
Professor Ben Madison, who was elected a fellow of the ETL consortium, observes how the consortium offers for the first time prospective law students concrete information on the quality of the legal education they will receive.
“A law student should recognize the consortium as an independent source that will confirm whether the school actually prepares students for law practice—not just by teaching legal concepts, but also by training students in the skills of lawyering and in developing an ethical framework so that they can be true professionals,” Madison said.
The Carnegie report found that most law schools were deficient in “teaching students how to use legal thinking in the complexity of actual law practice” and were failing to “complement the focus on skill in legal analyses with effective support for developing ethical and social skills.”
The school was recently granted membership in Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers (ETL), a selective consortium of 24 law schools under the auspices of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS). ETL’s goal is to facilitate and encourage best practices in legal education in order to train new lawyers to the highest standards of competence and professionalism.
Professor Ben Madison, who was elected a fellow of the ETL consortium, observes how the consortium offers for the first time prospective law students concrete information on the quality of the legal education they will receive.
“A law student should recognize the consortium as an independent source that will confirm whether the school actually prepares students for law practice—not just by teaching legal concepts, but also by training students in the skills of lawyering and in developing an ethical framework so that they can be true professionals,” Madison said.
The Carnegie report found that most law schools were deficient in “teaching students how to use legal thinking in the complexity of actual law practice” and were failing to “complement the focus on skill in legal analyses with effective support for developing ethical and social skills.”
ETL
consortium member schools, which include USC, Stanford, Washington & Lee,
Vanderbilt, Cornell, Georgetown, and others, utilize the Carnegie model of
legal education to innovate legal education across three “value sets”:
knowledge, practice, and professionalism. The goal is to develop lawyers with
excellent advocacy skills, with an understanding of the nature and purpose of
the legal profession, and who are committed to the ethical practice of law.