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Baselining historical and cultural context for law students: ABA Standard 303(c) and New York Law School’s “Community Days: Law in Context” programme The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Anthony W. Crowell
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 58, No. 1, 2024)
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Courting controversy: the use of trigger warnings in teaching human rights law The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Lynsey Mitchell
This article explores how legal academics approach sensitive topics in human rights law, specifically how content is chosen, curated and discussed with students. It draws on data collected as part ...
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Teaching stare decisis to first-year law students in higher education: a pedagogical blind alley? The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kenneth Yin, Carmela De Maio
The doctrine of stare decisis is often explained in first-year law studies as synonymous with the doctrine of precedent and dichotomised into ratio decidendi and obiter dicta. This explanation of s...
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A qualitative study on how traditional Yeshiva education prepares students for law school The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
This qualitative study explores the potential ways that a traditional Yeshiva education (TYE) helps prepare students for entering and succeeding in law school. The researcher interviewed five rabbi...
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The sound of silence: the SRA and the SQE The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Anthony Bradney
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 58, No. 1, 2024)
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Tensions affecting law teachers’ collaborative practice around teaching: a study of beliefs and practices The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Klara Bolander Laksov, Khayala Ismayilova, Katrin Lainpelto
Collaborative practice among teachers, where teachers collaborate around their teaching practice, is known to optimise student learning in primary and secondary schools, where they are encouraged t...
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Transformation of the university: hopeful futures for higher education The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Jessica Guth
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 58, No. 1, 2024)
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Biopolitics and structure in legal education The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Aysha Mazhar
Published in The Law Teacher (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Biopolitics and resistance in legal education The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Aysha Mazhar
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 58, No. 1, 2024)
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Technological challenges for modern law school pedagogy: preparing graduates for the modern legal workplace The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Jill Alexander, Siobhan McConnell, Rebecca Mitchell, Angela McGrane
This article explores the prevailing narrative that legal technology is changing both what lawyers do and the knowledge, skills and attributes they need, which in turn has implications for the appr...
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Addressing brutality through community initiatives under the Police Act 2020: opportunities and limitations of Nigerian law clinics The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Ngozi Chinwa Ole, Olugbenga Oke-Samuel, Kingsley Osinachi N. Onu
As an aftermath of the 2020 End SARS-countrywide protest in Nigeria over police brutality, the Police Act 2020 (the 2020 Act) provided for cooperation and partnership between the police and the pub...
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Evaluating the carousel format of Sunderland Online’s LLM programme The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Gemma Phillips
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 4, 2023)
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Access to business attire as a widening participation issue in UK law schools The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Bela Bonita Chatterjee
Despite the suit being the very iconography of the lawyer, access to business attire is a curiously overlooked aspect of academic work on our most marginalised aspiring legal professionals, namely ...
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“I’m my own biggest critic”: an autoethnographic reflection on an early-career researcher’s first year as a lecturer in law The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Laura Higson-Bliss
Embedding my discussions in the wider literature around the neoliberal university and adopting an autoethnographic approach (the keeping of a diary), I explore the thoughts and feelings that I have...
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Design in legal education The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Kris Gledhill
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 4, 2023)
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The culpable corporate mind The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Patricia Leighton
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 4, 2023)
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Conceptual experimentation through design in pedagogical contexts: lessons from an anti-hate crime project in India The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Amanda Perry-Kessaris, Mohsin Alam Bhat, Joanna Perry
This paper explores how modes of thinking and practice that are characteristic of design-based disciplines – “designerly ways” – might contribute to the migration and integration of legal concepts,...
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Training law students like athletes: experimenting with the constraints-led approach in law clinics The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Jasper P. Sluijs, Herman Kasper Gilissen, Karin (C.J.) van Look
We studied to what extent insights from the “constraints-led approach” (CLA) in physical education can be applied to skills teaching for law students in preparation for law clinics. In the CLA, ath...
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Lines to a Don: why it is isn’t mindless to “reimagine” Jurisprudence The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Alex Green
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 4, 2023)
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Wellbeing and transitions in law: legal education and the legal profession The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Aysha Mazhar
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 4, 2023)
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Assessment for inclusion in higher education: promoting equity and social justice in assessment The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Jessica Guth
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 4, 2023)
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Lawyers and the rule of law The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Graham Ferris
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 4, 2023)
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A binate regulatory framework for the accreditation of law faculties in Nigerian universities: a necessity or overkill? The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Eti Best Herbert, Ngozi Chinwa Ole
Nigeria operates a binate regulatory system for legal education under the regulatory control of the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Council of Legal Education (CLE), which regulate t...
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Getting to maybe: how to excel on law school exams The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Ben Waters
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 4, 2023)
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Storytelling: a five-tier framework and the flipped classroom approach The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Jenny Y. Chan
Storytelling is a popular teaching method in legal education. Despite that popularity, research on designing and delivering this method to support different learning outcomes in legal education is ...
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Improve children’s legal knowledge and skills through School Tasking: your time starts now The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Alison EC Struthers, Siobhan McConnell
School Tasking is a university primary outreach project that started life as a small pilot at the University of Warwick in the academic year 2021–22 and has since become a national competition in t...
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The Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme: The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) 2014–2022 The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Eileen Fry, Richard Wakeford
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 3, 2023)
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Law postgraduate researchers and the cost-of-living crisis: an intervention The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Rosie Fox, Aysha Mazhar
Law postgraduate research studies are chronically underfunded and riddled with systemic inequalities. While financial precarity is an almost universal experience for postgraduate researchers (PGRs)...
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“Just teach them the law!”: the ethics of value inculcation within legal education The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Alex Green
To what extent should law teachers be permitted to advance controversial ethical, moral or political views as part of the LLB curriculum? This short paper grapples with that question by defending t...
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Starting gendered career pathways early? Differences between women and men students in optional module composition among UK law school undergraduates The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Sue Westwood
Women’s inequalities in the legal profession are an enduring concern. Women are over-represented in junior positions and under-represented in senior roles, especially in large corporate firms. This...
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Making sense of academic conferences: presenting, participating and organising The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Gavin Dingwall
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 3, 2023)
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The legal team of the future The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Sue Prince
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 3, 2023)
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The making of Aotearoa | New Zealand lawyers: a longitudinal study of law students and law graduates The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Lynne Taylor, Natalie Baird, Ursula Cheer, Valerie Sotardi, Erik Brogt
From 2014 to 2019 the authors conducted a longitudinal study of a self-selected of cohort of students enrolled in undergraduate law programmes at three New Zealand universities. This article report...
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Continuous assessment and legal education: how might a programme-level continuous assessment strategy be implemented and how might it affect student motivation? The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Edward Mitchell
Student motivation is an important issue in legal education and directly relates to student confidence, performance and persistence. Research into the efficacy of continuous assessment in higher ed...
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Thinking about clinical legal education: philosophical and theoretical perspectives The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Anne Kotonya
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 3, 2023)
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The Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme: the multiple choice test 2011–2021 The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Eileen Fry, Richard Wakeford, Jill Foster Taylor, Janet Wright
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 2, 2023)
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ChatGPT and the future of legal education and practice The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Marjan Ajevski, Kim Barker, Andrew Gilbert, Liz Hardie, Francine Ryan
The launch of ChatGPT, a natural language open-source AI platform, in November 2022 has taken the world by storm and artificial intelligence appears to be at a watershed moment in technological adv...
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Supporting students to better support themselves through reverse mentoring: the power of positive staff/student relationships and authentic conversations in the law school The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Rachael O’Connor
The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on student wellbeing and mental health should not be understated. Interventions seeking to improve cultures in law schools to challenge stigmas surrounding suppo...
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Learning modules: problem-based learning, blended learning and flipping the classroom The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Jayden Houghton
In 2020, the author introduced a new learning and assessment programme to the compulsory Land Law course at the University of Auckland, Faculty of Law. This article introduces, explains and evaluat...
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Let me introduce my friend, law: a pedagogical tool for supporting diversity and critical thinking in the legal classroom The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Joy Twemlow
If law was a person, what kind of person would they be? In this article I discuss the process of designing and delivering a first-year law seminar around this question. I explain how the question w...
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Integrating music into the study of law to engage students The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Jonathan Collinson
ABSTRACT This article describes five ways in which I have integrated music into law modules as a means by which to engage students: as an icebreaker; to set the tone for a module; to explore questions of representation; to tell stories; and to make theory tangible. The use of music in these ways aims to make students feel differently about the law and to engage their “emotional solidarity”. The modules
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Teaching ethics in a technology regulation module: exploring the pedagogical method The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Andy Cheng, Linsey Chen
ABSTRACT Technology and regulation exert significant impacts on business decision-making; as such, technology law has become an indispensable part of business education. The ethical components embedded in technology regulation modules are designed to equip future business professionals with fundamental values and rules that both guide and facilitate their decision-making. However, owing to the interdisciplinary
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Wellbeing and the legal academy The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Aysha Mazhar
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 2, 2023)
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From semantic weight to legal ontology via classification of concepts in legal texts The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Neil Grainger Allison
ABSTRACT A difficulty with legal vocabulary is that concepts in different legal systems map imperfectly to each other, particularly from common law systems where classification is often unclear or convoluted to codified civil systems. Even within the English language domain there are numerous legal systems where concepts differ, e.g. between Scotland and England. This causes significant problems for
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Modelling employability through clinical legal education: building confidence and professional identity The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Jill Alexander
ABSTRACT As the graduate recruitment market becomes increasingly competitive, gaining insight into the types of activity valued by students and employers to enhance employability is crucial to shape the employability agenda. This article reports on the findings of an innovative empirical study, designed to answer the research question, “What are the perceptions of alumni and employers of the impact
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Critical legal education as a subversive activity The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Chris Ashford
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 2, 2023)
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Not teaching law The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Simon Rice
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 2, 2023)
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Designing higher education experiential learning for the post-pandemic hybrid workforce The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Leela Cejnar, Elisabeth Valiente Reidl, Jennifer Fletcher
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 1, 2023)
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The Law School Degree Show: law, materiality, decolonization and authentic assessment The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Stephen Bunbury, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
ABSTRACT For the final year Degree Show at Westminster Law School, all final year students are required to produce a material artefact that reflects their understanding of law, justice, and their political and social responsibility as law students. In order to illustrate the process and use of this interdisciplinary assessment approach, we describe how we came about this way of thinking about assessment
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The bodyguards of lies: lawyers’ power and professional responsibility The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Graham Ferris
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 2, 2023)
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Qualifying work experience: do Street Law projects provide a “legal service”? The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Lucy Blackburn
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 1, 2023)
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The training of would-be lawyers in Vietnam: the current system, recent developments and potential transformation The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Ai Nhan Ho
ABSTRACT This paper discusses how would-be lawyers are trained in Vietnam and analyses some recent developments and potential transformation. Under the current Vietnamese system, law graduates have to go through the professional training delivered by the Judicial Academy – a national legal professional school, and 12 months practising as a probationary lawyer in a law firm, before sitting the Bar Examination
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In search of the evidence: digital learning in legal education, a scoping review The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Christine Storr, Cormac McGrath
ABSTRACT There is a lack of consolidated knowledge that identifies best practices when using digital learning tools, technologies and interventions in legal education. This paper seeks to illustrate the scope and nature of the current evidence that supports digital learning in legal education. The paper provides a scoping review of 10 years of empirical research in digital learning in legal education
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Rationale and recommendations on decolonising the pedagogy and curriculum of the Law School at the University of Exeter The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Natalie Ohana, Taimaa Barazi, David Barrett, Jasmin Bedeau, Prerna Bhuckory, Greta Bosch, James Braham, Connor Coombs, Swati Gola, Nora Jaber, Hanna Hailemariam, Zoe Lambert, Rebecca Lawrence, Louise Loder, Emma Marshall, Tia Matt, Kyriaki Nousia, Elif Ceylan Ozsoy, Tamira Phiri, Malcolm Rogge, Natalie Sedacca, Lee Snook, Inga Thiemann, Andrea Wallace, Karen Walsh
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 56, No. 4, 2022)
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Pedagogical 2.0: the case of flipped reading The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Doron Goldbarsht, Nathan Johnston
ABSTRACT Numerous studies prove that modern, student-centric approaches to tertiary education, such as blended learning, can enhance the quality of learning. However, while teaching methods have evolved, the texts from which students study remain the same. Little research exists examining the relationship between blended learning and the traditional textbooks currently in use. This article suggests
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What is legal education for? Reassessing the purposes of early twenty-first century learning and law schools The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Aysha Mazhar
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 1, 2023)
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Catering for international law students in a new world The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Marina Nehme
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 1, 2023)
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From ivory tower to academic commitment and leadership the changing public mission of universities The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Patricia Leighton
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 1, 2023)
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The rule of law and the separation of powers The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Graham Ferris
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 1, 2023)
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Minorities and the making of postcolonial states in international law The Law Teacher Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Aminah Prianca Karim
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 57, No. 1, 2023)