An article by PILA Manager Larry Donnelly, "Clinical Legal Education in Ireland: Some Transatlantic Musings", has been published in the latest edition of the Phoenix Law Review. The article compares the well-established clinical legal education (CLE) programmes which can be found in almost all U.S. law schools with the emerging programmes being established in Ireland. There is particular focus on the CLE programmes at NUI Galway, UCC, UCD and GCD. Mr Donnelly concludes that while Ireland is "late to the game" in this area, such lateness presents us with a "unique opportunity to borrow propitiously from those who have arrived before us and to get it right".
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