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).
Legal Education in the Global Context: Opportunities and Challenges
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By Christopher Gane, Robin Hui Huang
December 04, 2017
This book discusses the opportunities and challenges facing legal education in the era of globalization. It identifies the knowledge and skills that law students will require in order to prepare for the practice of tomorrow, and explores pedagogical shifts legal education needs to make inside and ...
Affect and Legal Education: Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law
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By Caroline Maughan, Paul Maharg
February 27, 2017
The place of emotion in legal education is rarely discussed or analysed, and we do not have to seek far for the reasons. The difficulty of interdisciplinary research, the technicisation of legal education itself, the view that affect is irrational and antithetical to core western ideals of ...
Legal Education: Simulation in Theory and Practice
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By Caroline Strevens, Richard Grimes, Edward Phillips
January 09, 2017
The importance of simulation in education, specifically in legal subjects, is here discussed and explored within this innovative collection. Demonstrating how simulation can be constructed and developed for learning, teaching and assessment, the text argues that simulation is a pedagogically ...
The Arts and the Legal Academy: Beyond Text in Legal Education
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By Zenon Bankowski, Maksymilian Del Mar, Paul Maharg
November 28, 2016
In Western culture, law is dominated by textual representation. Lawyers, academics and law students live and work in a textual world where the written word is law and law is interpreted largely within written and printed discourse. Is it possible, however, to understand and learn law differently? ...
The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life: Beyond Text in Legal Education
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By Zenon Bankowski, Maksymilian Del Mar
November 28, 2016
What role can resources that go beyond text play in the development of moral education in law schools and law firms? How can these resources - especially those from the visual and performing arts - nourish the imagination needed to confront the ethical complexities of particular situations? This ...
The Calling of Law: The Pivotal Role of Vocational Legal Education
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By Fiona Westwood, Karen Barton
September 06, 2016
As one of the ’learned’ professions requiring advanced learning and high principles, law enjoys a special standing in society. In return for its status and rank, the legal profession is expected to exhibit the highest levels of honesty, trust and morality, the very values which underpin the legal ...
Law and Leadership: Integrating Leadership Studies into the Law School Curriculum
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By Paula Monopoli, Susan McCarty
August 26, 2016
Leadership includes the ability to persuade others to embrace one’s ideas and to act upon them. Teaching law students the art of persuasion through advocacy is at the heart of legal education. But historically law schools have not included leadership studies in the curriculum. This book is one of ...