Purpose: The objective of this study was to examine the role of legal learning space in a Malaysian university and how this space impacts on law students' preparation for the employment market. This study comes in response to the issue of inexperienced graduates, who lack appropriate employability skills for the world of work, commonly referred to…

Reflective practice is an essential component of experiential learning and is embedded within the curriculum at York Law School, where the undergraduate law programme is delivered using a problem-based learning model. Using qualitative data from a survey of the markers of one of the summative reflective tasks, and Bernstein's evaluative rules as a…

A study of law students' beliefs about quality of learning in work settings, and which factors distinguish between settings supporting good learning and those that do not, is described. Results correspond to a theory of ecological learning. Criticisms of workplace learning are examined. It is argued that legal educators need not control the work…

The Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) documents dimensions of quality in legal education and provides information about law student participation in effective educational activities that law schools and other organizations can use to improve student learning. Since its inception in 2003, more than 64,000 law students at 111 different…

This study uses an adaptation of the Illuminative Evaluation method in examining experiential learning through a case study of its application in practical legal training. The study's prime focus is on the experiential learning method known as the "current matter" process as conducted by the College of Law, Sydney (Australia). This…