O scurtă pauză din predare pentru a vorbi despre educaţie
A short break from teaching to talk about education

Summary/Abstract: We want students to progress towards the goals we set out to achieve in the syllabus. We want them to use the acquired knowledge and skills, to learn to be independent. But how do we help them get to that point? The value of a law degree is increasingly being judged based on how many graduates are „employable” rather than on a generic assessment of the advantages of legal education. We need a change in the current thinking frameworks to face the challenges of the 21st century, and above all we need dialogue and debate. Summarizing the ideas that will be presented in the following lines, we can say that the law school should harmonize its missions with the demands of sustainability, being responsible to adjust its values, as well as its policies and curricula accordingly. A careful balance is needed in setting priorities, at the same time, preserving students’ freedom and recognizing the responsibility of universities in providing a broad knowledge and skills base for society. To improve legal education and make it more flexible, coherent and open to the needs of society, it must be treated as a process that encourages constructive critical thinking, curiosity and the emancipation of students. For the same reasons, designing the curriculum should be a collegial and collaborative process involving the entire academic community and external partners, representatives of the „labour market” as well as representatives of the „civil society”. Only with a bit of patience, these small-scale forms of „resistance” to the challenges of the future or the present itself will allow us to acquire, through legal education, the „openness to closure” that we need so much (in the sense of the willingness to refuse the charms that make us too comfortable with the present).

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