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Chapter 9 - The Need for a New Law Professor in Moldova

from Part Four - The Academic Career in Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2014

Mihaela Vidaicu
Affiliation:
Moldova State University Law Faculty
Nadejda Hriptievschi
Affiliation:
Public Defender’s Office (Chisinau) and Moldova State University Law Faculty
Maria Mutu-Strulea
Affiliation:
Moldova State University Law Faculty
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Summary

“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.”

Erasmus

Introduction

This chapter proposes developing a new law professor as the key factor in reforming the law schools, given the changed legal environment and needs in Moldova. The new law professor should help law students gain knowledge, but also help them develop critical thinking and the ability to apply the law. While this is a more or less acknowledged need, how to foster the construction of such a position remains a major challenge. We suggest some possibilities in this respect: a change in policymakers’ attitudes to legal education; a change for the law professors themselves; continuing training of the entire teaching staff, not only junior members; a policy change in law professors’ remuneration; introduction of a well-conceived evaluation of the staff; and connection of the university with the law practice.

The need for a new law professor

Before the 1990s, legal education was primarily focused on building knowledge of substantive law among students. It paid little or no attention to the skills and attitudes of lawyers. One of the main reasons was perhaps market demand, which was determined by a legal system based on a very strict approach to interpretation of the law. In a system where judges had little discretion in interpreting the law and where precedent had no value, there was less need for skillful lawyers than for lawyers who knew the letter of the law very well.

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The New Law School
Reexamining Goals, Organization and Methods for a Changing World
, pp. 93 - 102
Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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