TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter examines the efforts undertaken to restructure the legal education system in South Africa and Nigeria. It investigates the connection between contextual influences and professional development, particularly with respect to the concept of legal information literacy and the value of acquired educational skills in the context of legal practice. The chapter provides insights to the needs and challenges for graduate requirement for legal information literacy skills in the effort to ensure productivity in the legal education system in Africa. Data were obtained using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Outcomes from the study were supportive of the importance of information literacy as central to the development of professional competence. Findings also point to a need for greater collaboration between the legal education system and the legal profession in narrowing the gap between the teaching and practice of law specifically in the design and implementation of an information literacy framework for the legal education system.
VL  - 8
SN  - 978-1-78190-766-5, 978-1-78190-767-2/1876-0562
DO  - 10.1108/S1876-0562(2013)0000008014
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1876-0562(2013)0000008014
AU  - Lawal Vicki
AU  - Stilwell Christine
AU  - Kuhn Rosemary
AU  - Underwood Peter G.
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013/01/01
TI  - Perspectives on Legal Education and the Role of Information Literacy in Improving Qualitative Legal Practice
T2  - Developing People’s Information Capabilities: Fostering Information Literacy in Educational, Workplace and Community Contexts
T3  - Library and Information Science
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 151
EP  - 166
Y2  - 2024/04/18
ER  -