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1 Asian J. Legal Educ. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/asjledu1 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Preparing Law Students for Global Asian journal of Legal Education 1(1) 1-13 Practice: An Innovative Model 2014 The West Bengal National University of juridical Sciences for Teaching Lawyering Skills SAGE Publications Los Angeles, London, and Social justice in a Large New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC DOI: 10. 1177/2321005813505456 Enrol ent aw C ursehttp://ale.sagepub.com (SAGE Lisa Radtke Bliss Supamas Chinvinijkul Abstract This article describes how the authors collaborated to create a large enrolment law course that had equally weighed pedagogical goals: to teach Thai law students how to read, understand and communicate legal terms using English, to teach social justice and to teach fundamental lawyering skills employing clinical legal education methodologies. The article demonstrates how such goals can be accomplished in large enrolment courses in which students are unfamiliar with participatory learning models. In the context of discussing innovations in a 300 student Legal English course, the article illustrates how a law course can both impart knowledge and help students develop a wide range of lawyering skills as well as develop their identity as thoughtful, reflective, professional practitioners for whom social justice is a value, regardless of their professional goals. Introduction Law teachers in Asia and elsewhere face a multitude of challenges as they seek to develop law students' knowledge, skills and values. Across the globe, the emphasis of law teachers traditionally has been on developing students' knowledge of legal concepts. In western countries, students' knowledge traditionally has been developed via reading appellate judicial opinions and engaging in an in-class dialogue with their professors to dissect those opinions in an effort to understand legal rules and reasoning. In Asian Acknowledgements: The authors thank collaborator and co-teacher, Lecturer Sopit Cheevapanich and Dean Apirat Petchsiri, Mae Fah Luang University School of Law. The authors also thank Co-directors Bruce Lasky and Wendy Morrish of Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia Community Legal Education Initiative for their support in the development of this and other projects at Mae Fah Luang University School of Law. The authors also thank lecturers Smarat Mahapiyasilp and Kiratiphong Naewmalee for their assistance and participation in the class, BABSEA CLE Law Fellow Klanarong Kaikrong for his valuable assistance, Professor Ved Kumari from Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, India and lecturers Damon Kumtrai and Suwijak Chandapan for their participation in classroom role plays and for showing students that learning can be fun. The authors thank Professor Andrea A. Curcio for her thoughtful review of earlier drafts of this article. Lisa Radtke Bliss is Associate Clinical Professor, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, Georgia. Supamas Chinvinijkul is a former Full-time Lecturer, Mae Fah Luang University School of Law, Chiang Rai, Thailand.

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