nim 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201104-115642-0 DE-Verfassungsblog sr||||| 201104s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201104-115642-0 doi eng 342 23 O'Regan, Attracta Author aut LawRules #7: We need to talk about Legal Education O'Regan, Attracta Verfassungsblog 2020-11-04 Spoken Word spw rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier As the last couple of episodes of our podcast have demonstrated, preserving the rule of law depends to a large quantity on people working in legal professions. What prosecutors, judges, attorneys, and, to a large degree, people working in the executive branch have in common, is a law degree. This means that we have to turn to legal education itself in order to find answers to the question how rule of law systems may remain or become resilient against authoritarian backsliding. Are current legal education systems in the EU equipped for this task? How are they affected by the turn to authoritarianism and illiberalism in a number of member states? And what are intrinsic shortcomings of academic and professional legal education? funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Academic Freedom critical thinking Legal education We need to talk about the rule of law Mangold, Anna Katharina Author aut Tóth, Gábor Attila Author aut Urbanik, Jakub Author aut Kokott, Lennart Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/lawrules-7-we-need-to-talk-about-legal-education/ raw object