c: H K I S r 1 A N 11 A I 11 1. X Legal Education Reform in the funerging Swedish Welfare-State I hi; discol rsi: oi i i c.ai. rHi:(>RV \ s. i kc.ai ra(:tic;i; in l OLCAriON OLRINC. THl. 1940’s AND 19S'o’s. AN OL ri INI..' SWI.DISII ll.C.AI I N r R () I) LC T 1 0 N 'I'ho main jnirjio.sc nt this arricle is to present and anaKse the diseussion coneerning a modernisation of the legal edneation tliiring the 1940’s and i9^-o's. 'this paper will toeiis on the diseiission in the leading national law journal, Svenshjuristtidniugou the goal and purpose of legal edueation. the ijuestions posed, both in the journal artieles and in the w ider diseussion were: should the Swedish law edueation he a mainh’ professional training or a theoretieal study.' The main arguments of the diseussion w ill he presented and anah’sed helow, hut to understand the diseussion it is necessaiw to identifx’ the \arious formati\e faetors, which in different wins proxoked and influenced the diseussion. 1 A presentation of the earlier development of the modern legal education in Sweden, mainly the period from 1870 to 1930. In häthén, c.. Legal education in Sweden during 1870 - 1930. Från Schlyters lustgård. Rättshistoriska uppsatser. i-.2ooi. Lund 2001, p 69. 2 The need to modernise Swedish legal education has been discussed for more than one hundred and fifty years. Professors, students, politicians and legal professionals have argued about the length of the laweducation, about the subjects that should be included in the curriculum, about 4II
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