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Legal Pedagogy

About the Book Series

This series consists of high-quality monographs that explore best practice in the teaching of all areas of law, whilst addressing wider questions about legal education more generally. With contributions from respected academics around the world, this series explores innovative thinking and practice within the context of a generally conservative branch of academia, with the aim of promoting discussion as to how best to teach the various aspects of the law degree and ensure the ongoing validity of the law degree as a whole. Individual books within the series will focus on specific areas of law and will discuss questions such as: could there be more variety in teaching methods and curriculum design? What is the role for more practical courses? Should students be offered law degrees with specialisations, or with an emphasis on the role of law in society?

The books in this series will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduates in the fields of law and education, as well as teachers of law who may be interested in reviving curricula and need a prompt in that direction. In addition, the legal profession, and in particular those who regulate entry into the profession, will find much to interest them within the series.

To discuss submitting a book for the series, please contact series editor Kris Gledhill, Professor at AUT Law School

9 Series Titles


Teaching and Learning Climate and Environmental Justice in Law Schools Global Perspectives on Transforming the Curriculum

Teaching and Learning Climate and Environmental Justice in Law Schools: Global Perspectives on Transforming the Curriculum

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Richard Grimes, Stephen Levett, Rebecca Samaras, Rebecca Williams
September 23, 2025

Arguing for the critical importance of the topic within law school curricula (whether for academic credit purposes or not), this novel and exceptionally timely book explores a fundamental question: should law schools teach about climate and environmental justice? Despite the urgency of climate and ...

Contemporary Challenges in Clinical Legal Education Role, Function and Future Directions

Contemporary Challenges in Clinical Legal Education: Role, Function and Future Directions

1st Edition

Edited By Matthew Atkinson, Ben Livings
December 19, 2024

This edited book addresses contemporary challenges in clinical legal education (CLE), considering its role in legal education and in the broader community it serves. Written by experts from various international contexts, the book explores how the changing nature and requirements of legal practice...

Teaching Family Law Reflections on Pedagogy and Practice

Teaching Family Law: Reflections on Pedagogy and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Henry Kha, Mark Henaghan
December 19, 2024

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the teaching of an eclectic range of family law topics and the unique opportunities and challenges of teaching family law in different jurisdictions from a varied international perspective. Written by leading legal scholars, the book addresses a gap in...

Teaching Legal Education in the Digital Age Pedagogical Practices to Digitally Empower Law Graduates

Teaching Legal Education in the Digital Age: Pedagogical Practices to Digitally Empower Law Graduates

1st Edition

Edited By Ann Thanaraj, Kris Gledhill
May 27, 2024

Teaching Legal Education in the Digital Age explores how legal pedagogy and curriculum design should be modernised to ensure that law students have a realistic view of the future of the legal profession. Using future readiness and digital empowerment as central themes, chapters discuss the use of ...

Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, and Legal Pedagogy Strategies, Successes, and Challenges

Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, and Legal Pedagogy: Strategies, Successes, and Challenges

1st Edition

Edited By Foluke I Adebisi, Suhraiya Jivraj, Ntina Tzouvala
December 08, 2023

This book offers an international breadth of historical and theoretical insights into recent efforts to "decolonise" legal education across the world. With a specific focus on post- and decolonial thought and anti-racist methods in pedagogy, this edited collection provides an accessible ...

Teaching Migration and Asylum Law Theory and Practice

Teaching Migration and Asylum Law: Theory and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Grimes, Věra Honuskova, Ulrich Stege
September 25, 2023

This highly topical book demonstrates the theoretical and practical importance of the study of migration law. It outlines approaches that may be taken in the design, delivery and monitoring of this study in law schools and universities to ensure an optimum level of learning. Drawing on ...

Teaching Evidence Law Contemporary Trends and Innovations

Teaching Evidence Law: Contemporary Trends and Innovations

1st Edition

Edited By Yvonne Daly, Jeremy Gans, PJ Schwikkard
May 06, 2022

Teaching Evidence Law sets out the contemporary experiences of evidence teachers in a range of common law countries across four continents: Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. It addresses key themes and places these in the ...

Re-thinking Legal Education under the Civil and Common Law A Road Map for Constructive Change

Re-thinking Legal Education under the Civil and Common Law: A Road Map for Constructive Change

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Grimes
December 19, 2018

Whilst educational theory has developed significantly in recent years, much of the law curriculum remains content-driven and delivered traditionally, predominantly through lecture format. Students are, in the main, treated as empty vessels to be filled by the eminent academics of the day. ...

The Teaching of Criminal Law The pedagogical imperatives

The Teaching of Criminal Law: The pedagogical imperatives

1st Edition

Edited By Kris Gledhill, Ben Livings
March 07, 2018

The Teaching of Criminal Law provides the first considered discussion of the pedagogy that should inform the teaching of criminal law. It originates from a survey of criminal law courses in different parts of the English-speaking world which showed significant similarity across countries and over ...

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