Towards Inclusive Legal Education: Complications and Challenges

While massification has made legal education accessible to an increasing number of students, and scholars have been urging schools to address the issues of diversity and inclusion, law schools across the Western world are still regularly criticised for being not particularly inclusive environments. This can be attributed to both the curriculum and culture of law school and the legal profession in general.
The contributions to this special issue address the subject of inclusive legal education by highlighting a range of initiatives that have been implemented at law schools and judicial training centres across the world. These initiatives are described, analysed and evaluated to provide insights into the rationale behind them and their potential contribution to overcoming some of the problems of the inclusivity deficit in legal education.
This editorial begins by pointing out some of the fundamental dilemmas inherent in creating an inclusive legal education within the current setup of many legal educational programmes. Next, three possible approaches to addressing these dilemmas are explored. Then, an overview of the contributions to this issue is offered that connects these contributions to the dilemmas and the potential solutions. The editorial ends with conclusions based on the insights which can be drawn from this special issue.