诊所法律教育的耶鲁标本及其启示意义——评《法庭风暴:美国耶鲁师生诉战总统》

The Yale Specimens of Clinical Legal Education and Its Implications——A Review of Storming the Court

诊所法律教育已经在我国法学教育中实现了"入主流"的目标,法学院教师需要对诊所法律教育有所了解并尝试实践。《法庭风暴》一书以耶鲁大学法律诊所师生团队处理的海地难民人权诉讼案为线索,用文学手法形神兼备地展示了包括诊所法律教育理念、诊所法律教育方法、诊所学生与诊所教师角色定位,以及诊所法律教育所需的硬件设施和内外条件等诊所法律教育的核心内容,同时真实地描述了耶鲁大学法律诊所师生在为海地难民提供法律援助过程中的情感变化、悲喜忧愁及其对诊所学生毕业后职业选择的影响,令人感同身受。该书是一本不可多得且生动形象的诊所法律教育全景介绍文献,集中呈现和展示了诊所法律教育的耶鲁标本,值得所有对诊所法律教育感兴趣的读者仔细阅读,同时对我国正在和即将从事诊所法律教育的法律人具有较强的参考价值和启示意义。

Clinical legal education has achieved the goal of " entering the mainstream" in China ’s legal education,while law school teachers need to know about clinic legal education and try to practice it.The book,Storming the Court skillfully takes how the Yale legal clinic team deal with Haitian refugees’ human rights lawsuit as the clue,using literature methods with the unity of form and gist,to introduce the education idea and the education methodology,student’s teacher’s roles and positions in clinical legal education,the hardware facilities and the internal and external conditions for clinical legal education.At the same time,this book truly describes the emotional change of Yale legal clinic team in the process of providing their legal aid to Haitian refugees,as their feeling of sorrow and happy,and its influence on students’ career choices after graduation,which share a huge amount of information with readers.The book is a rare and vivid image and panoramic view of clinical legal education,which focuses on present and shows the Yale specimens of clinical legal education,and worthy of all readers interested in clinical legal education to reading it carefully.At the same time,in China,it has strong reference value and significance and to those who are engaged in and will be engaged in the clinical legal education.