@article{AC CMG_2018, title={Unmet Needs for Legal Services in Australia: Ten Commandments for Australian Law Schools}, volume={34}, url={https://journals.latrobe.edu.au/index.php/law-in-context/article/view/51}, DOI={10.26826/law-in-context.v34i1.51}, abstractNote={<p>After outlining some strengths and failings of the law in Australia in meeting individual and community needs for legal services, the author explains why the recent over-supply of law graduates is unlikely to cure the shortfall in services. He proposes ten ‘commandments’ for Australian law schools, namely to:<br>1. Assure a more diverse intake;<br>2. Attend to vulnerable students, so that they survive their studies;<br>3. Address particular subjects of poverty law;<br>4. Encourage engagement by future lawyers with civil society;<br>5. Promote involvement with all forms of legal aid;<br>6. Acknowledge the importance of the law on costs;<br>7. Enhance access to law through new technology;<br>8. Establish miscarriage of justice and innocence clinics;<br>9. Undertake reliable empirical research and law reform projects; and<br>10. Consider basic lessons to be derived from foreign legal systems.<br>Legal academics, he concludes, have a special duty to critique their discipline and to provide a sense of engagement among lawyers (starting with law students) with the values of the laws they help to implement.</p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={Law in Context. A Socio-legal Journal}, author={AC CMG, Michael Kirby}, year={2018}, month={Dec.} }