ABSTRACT This article argues that due to their position and task in society, legal professionals are confronted with specific difficulties connected to contemporary circumstances. To outline these circumstances, this article draws on the work of Ulrich Beck and Zygmunt Bauman and places both theories within the late modernity. Lawyers need to be able to deal with the difficulties late modernity poses and are therefore in need of appropriate knowledge and skills. Law schools should offer relevant schooling so that their students are equipped to deal with the difficulties confronting them in late modernity’s society. This article offers a first inquiry into the challenges that lawyers currently face, alongside anticipating alteration of academic law school programs by clarifying the challenges caused by two societal processes in late modernity, namely (1) the increase of technological possibilities and, simultaneously, the demystification of science; and (2) globalization. These processes lead to a complex society ruled by uncertainty that faces the challenge of allocating responsibility. In addition, some initial suggestions are presented regarding the conceivable adjustments to academic legal education in late modernity.

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律师，法学院和社会变革–定义了现代晚期学术法律教育的挑战

摘要本文认为，由于法律专业人员在社会中的地位和任务，他们面临着与当代情况有关的特殊困难。为了概述这些情况，本文借鉴了Ulrich Beck和Zygmunt Bauman的著作，并将这两种理论都放在了现代后期。律师需要能够应对现代性带来的困难，因此需要适当的知识和技能。法学院应提供相关的教育，以使他们的学生有能力应对现代社会后期面临的困难。本文首先阐明了律师当前面临的挑战，同时通过阐明近代晚期的两个社会过程所带来的挑战，期待着学术法学院课程的改变，即（1）技术可能性的增加，同时又使科学的神秘化；（2）全球化。这些过程导致了一个充满不确定性的复杂社会，该社会面临着责任分配的挑战。此外，提出了一些初步建议，以期对现代晚期学术法学教育的可能调整进行调整。