Emerging Legal Education: Emerging Legal Education
About the Book Series
Emerging Legal Education is a forum for analysing the discourse of legal education and creating innovative ways of learning the law. The series focuses on research, theory and practice within legal education, drawing attention to historical, interdisciplinary and international characteristics, and is based upon imaginative and sophisticated educational thinking. The series takes a broad view of theory and practice. Series books are written for an international audience and are sensitive to the diversity of contexts in which law is taught, learned and practised.
Series Editors
Meera Deo is Professor of Law (The Honorable Vaino Spencer Chair), Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, California. Prior to this she was Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego. She has held visiting positions at Berkeley Law and UCLA School of Law. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Her nationally recognized, mixed-method empirical research is focused on institutional diversity, affirmative action, and solutions to intersectional (race/gender) bias.
Audrey Fried is Director, Faculty & Curriculum Development at Osgoode Professional Development, Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. She holds a JD from the University of Chicago, an LLM from the University of Toronto, and a master’s in education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, where she is currently a doctoral candidate.
Kryss Macleod is strategic lead for education at Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University. She has designed and led large scale redesign across all levels of legal education, shaping structural and pedagogic change in response to contemporary challenges, including: regulatory change; digitalisation and technology within the legal profession; and access, diversity and equitable outcomes. Prior to full time academia, she worked in human rights and, in the context of capacity development, was introduced to critical pedagogies, which has underpinned her work and approaches to teaching and development in higher education. She is currently at work on a monograph on the subject of the posthuman law school.
Paul Maharg holds part-time posts as Professor of Law at Manchester Law School, Consultant to Osgoode Professional Development, and is Visiting Professor to the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to that he held professorial posts at Osgoode Hall Law School, The Australian National University and several law schools in the UK. He is a Fellow of the RSA (2009), was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship (2011), is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2015) and Honorary Vice-President of BILETA (British & Irish Law Education Technology Association - 2022).
Global Clinical Legal Education
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By Jeff Giddings
December 31, 2024
This book explores the distinctive nature of clinical legal education in a range of global contexts. The emergence of law school-based clinical legal education has been recognised as a major innovation in modern legal education. At its best, it integrates the academic rigour of university-based ...
Critical Legal Education as a Subversive Activity
1st Edition
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By Helen Gibbon, Ben Golder, Lucas Lixinski, Marina Nehme, Prue Vines
August 26, 2024
In an age when everyone aspires to teach critical thinking skills in the classroom, what does it mean to be a subversive law teacher? Who or what might a subversive law teacher seek to subvert – the authority of the law, the university, their own authority as teachers, perhaps? Are law students ...
Teaching International Law: Reflections on Pedagogical Practice in Context
1st Edition
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By Jean-Pierre Gauci, Barrie Sander
June 26, 2024
The practice of teaching international law is conducted in a wide range of contexts across the world by a host of different actors – including scholars, practitioners, civil society groups, governments, and international organisations. This collection brings together a diversity of scholars and ...
What is Legal Education for?: Reassessing the Purposes of Early Twenty-First Century Learning and Law Schools
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By Rachel Dunn, Paul Maharg, Victoria Roper
May 27, 2024
How we interpret and understand the historical contexts of legal education has profoundly affected how we understand contemporary educational cultures and practices. This book, the result of a Modern Law Review seminar, both celebrates and critiques the lasting impact of Peter Birks’ influential ...
Design in Legal Education
1st Edition
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By Emily Allbon, Amanda Perry-Kessaris
January 29, 2024
This visually rich, experience-led collection explores what design can do for legal education. In recent decades design has increasingly come to be understood as a resource to improve other fields of public, private and civil society practice; and legal design—that is, the application of ...
Thinking About Clinical Legal Education: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Omar Madhloom, Hugh McFaul
January 29, 2024
Thinking About Clinical Legal Education provides a range of philosophical and theoretical frameworks that can serve to enrich the teaching and practice of Clinical Legal Education (CLE). CLE has become an increasingly common feature of the curriculum in law schools across the globe. However, there ...
Better Law for a Better World: New Approaches to Law Practice and Education
1st Edition
By Liz Curran
January 09, 2023
How as a society can we find ways of ensuring the people who are the most vulnerable or have little voice can avail themselves of the protection in law to improve their social, cultural, health and economic outcomes as befits civilised society? Better Law for a Better World answers this question ...
Educating for Well-Being in Law: Positive Professional Identities and Practice
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By Caroline Strevens, Rachael Field
December 13, 2021
Bringing together the current international body of knowledge on key issues for educating for well-being in law, this book offers comparative perspectives across jurisdictions, and utilises a range of theoretical lenses (including socio-legal, psychological and ethical theories) in analysing ...
Imperatives for Legal Education Research: Then, Now and Tomorrow
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By Ben Golder, Marina Nehme, Alex Steel, Prue Vines
December 13, 2021
In the last few decades university teaching has been recognised as an activity which can be studied and improved through educational scholarship. In some disciplines this is now well established. It remains emergent in legal education. The field is rich with questions to be answered, issues to be ...
Power, Legal Education, and Law School Cultures
1st Edition
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By Meera Deo, Mindie Lazarus-Black, Elizabeth Mertz
December 13, 2021
There is a myth that lingers around legal education in many democracies. That myth would have us believe that law students are admitted and then succeed based on raw merit, and that law schools are neutral settings in which professors (also selected and promoted based on merit) use their expertise ...
Public Legal Education: The Role of Law Schools in Building a More Legally Literate Society
1st Edition
By Richard Grimes
May 11, 2021
This book makes the case for a more legally literate society and then addresses why and how a law school might contribute to achieving that. Moreover examining what public legal education (PLE) is and the forms it can take, the book looks specifically at the ways in which a law school can get ...
Promoting Law Student and Lawyer Well-Being in Australia and Beyond
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By Rachel Field, James Duffy, Colin James
June 30, 2020
University can be a psychologically distressing place for students. Empirical studies in Australia and the USA highlight that a large number of law students suffer from psychological distress, when compared to students from other disciplines and members of the general population. This book explores...