Legal education is faced with the need to carry out the most major changes of a half century. It is argued here, and elsewhere that legal practice and the work of law has evolved both fast and far during the last half century in which the subject categories of legal education crystallised and hardened. The approaches and techniques of legal education have also changed with learning in education itself during that period and more recently the bureaucracy in auditing and monitoring education have produced further strains on traditional methods and approaches. This paper briefly takes note of the major issues which, it is argued, force change and considers the great difficulties in undertaking a total change in approach, content, method and paradigms of legal education.