The issue of whether statutory interpretation should be taught in law schools has been a difficult and divisive topic. Australia, like other common law jurisdictions, has grappled with the issue. Those advocating that it be treated as a discrete and significant area in the law school curriculum have struggled over the last two decades. Recently, however, an important step was taken. In 2015, the Council of Australian Law Deans, which comprises the Deans of all university law schools in Australia, formally approved a Guide which acknowledges the relevance and importance of statutory interpretation in a law degree and outlines learning outcomes to be achieved. This leads to the important question of how to teach the subject. This article addresses some of the issues relevant to an assessment of how to teach statutory interpretation. Following a brief examination of the Australian, US and UK experiences, the article offers suggestions, based on the Guide, international literature, and the authors’ own teaching experience, about important threshold issues such as teaching as a discrete subject, content, timing, and perception.

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在澳大利亚教授法定口译：下一步是什么？

法学院是否应该教授法定解释的问题一直是一个困难和分裂的话题。与其他普通法司法管辖区一样，澳大利亚一直在努力解决这个问题。那些主张将其视为法学院课程中一个独立且重要的领域的人在过去的二十年中一直在挣扎。然而，最近迈出了重要的一步。2015 年，由澳大利亚所有大学法学院院长组成的澳大利亚法学院院长理事会正式批准了一份指南，该指南承认法律学位中法定解释的相关性和重要性，并概述了要实现的学习成果。这就引出了如何教授这门学科的重要问题。本文解决了与评估如何教授法定解释有关的一些问题。