legal science and concenrrared on the necessar\ iinpnneinent ot rhe education. 1 le descrihed his own experiments with seminars and essay writing.'" I le also described his etVorts to add practical elements to his classes in procedural law." likel(’)f also discussed rhe jirohlems w ith the lectures. I le realised that the scholarh’ lectures were a waste of time. 'The students did not understand themand the\ were not realK interested. It would he pedagogicallx better to concentrate the lectures on difficidt parts of the curriculum. Unfortunateh' this meant that rhe ambitious students were depri\ed ot lectures that could de\elop their legal sense and increase their theoretical knowledge, hut that had to he accepted. I'.keh'if returned to the theme of practical elements in the legal education. I le agreed with the ideas that more practical elements in rhe education would add to rhe (.]ualit\’ of the education and that the more theoretical elements of the education should benefit hv this. To achie\ e this he suggested that half a \ ear of practice could he added to rhe education, perhaps somewhere in the middle of the structure *)f nine semesters. This would need a complete reform of rhe whole education and Kkelöf suggested that rhe legal education should he di\ ided into two distinct parts. During these two stud\’ periods all rele\ant legal subjects should he studied, during the first part in an elementar\ wax’ and during the later in a more scholarh' and ad\ anced wax." I'inallx’ Kkelöf suggested that nexx suhiects had to Ixe added to rhe legal studies. 1 le presented criminologx, forensic science and xx itness psx’chology as examples hut other practical subjects coidd he of interest, too. In this connection he gaxe examples from the nexx procedural code of the need of specialist knoxx ledge in non-legal areas. To add nexx subjects to the legal education meant that other subjects had 30 In a much later article Ekelöf looks back on his experiences and he describes his first pedagogical experiments in Uppsala. He writes that he got the inspiration from his own military training. Juridiska klubben i Stockholm 50 ar, 1985 p 11. 31 Ekelöf, p 339. 32 Ekelöf, p 343. 33 Ekelöf, p 3494^^
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