(2021). Legal education in England and Wales: what next?. The Law Teacher. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Autoethnography is a contemporary qualitative approach to research and writing where the researcher uses their lived experience as data. Autoethnographers reflect deeply on, and make sense of, their own struggles as well as exploring cultural practices and beliefs. A diverse range of academic disciplines have embraced autoethnography as a research method. Legal education, however, rarely mentions

ABSTRACT Rising costs, an increasingly competitive graduate jobs market, and the introduction of alternative routes to highly skilled employment, have led many to question the “value” of higher education courses. This is the fourth in a series of papers which examines the value of a law degree from a range of perspectives: Part 1 explored theory from the marketing discipline in an attempt to identify

ABSTRACT The legal clinic at the SWPS University started operating in 2011. Since 2017, a new model of its functioning has been created based on a peer- tutoring method. Among other things, it is based on a system of roles in which senior students coordinate customer service and are responsible for cases conducted by those starting cooperation with the clinic and also assess the quality of their work

(2021). Encyclopedia of law and development. The Law Teacher. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Criminalizing sex: a unified liberal theory. The Law Teacher. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated the use of online communication technologies to deliver higher education. This article focuses on technology-based legal education at Charles Sturt University and work undertaken to adapt residential schools for the online environment. Following a discussion of the role of residential schools in the law course, it considers the regulatory environment

(2021). Law Teacher of the Year 2018 and 2019: in conversation with Lydia Bleasdale and Sabrina Germain. The Law Teacher. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The winner of the ALT Thomson Reuters Teaching Law with Technology Prize 2020 gives an insight into her inspiration behind ‘Legally Bound’ the legally themed escape room concept. Explaining how the escape room was developed using gamification to immerse the students in the learning process, Linda Chadderton explains the development of the escape room and the reaction it received amongst staff

ABSTRACT This article reports on the effectiveness of an Early Intervention Pilot (EIP) with year 1 law students in Lancashire Law School, UCLan in 2018–19. The initiative was designed to address concerns over attendance and attainment identified in a previous School project. The EIP used non-attendance thresholds to trigger early intervention student meetings with Course Leaders to explore reasons

(2021). The right to education through online learning in times of covid – 19: A case study at school of law, vietnam national university. The Law Teacher. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Law and society in England 1750–1950. The Law Teacher. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The impact of technology and innovation on the wellbeing of the legal profession. The Law Teacher. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The battle for international law: South-North perspectives on the decolonization era. The Law Teacher. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT With the rise of online education as part of the college curriculum, numerous business and law schools have started offering courses online. The COVID-19 pandemic will also be a catalyst for more institutions of higher learning offering online or hybrid courses as part of their menu of choices. While there is a growing literature on teaching online, there is no information on the challenges

(2021). Introduction. The Law Teacher: Vol. 55, Vulnerability and the Organisation of Academic Labour, pp. 1-4.

ABSTRACT Vulnerability theory stresses the role of an active state that is responsive to our common human needs: health, safety, sustenance, shelter, education, and fulfilling work. This article studies institutions of higher education in the US and UK through the lens of vulnerability theory, examining the role of the state to serve the public interest through its colleges and universities. The history

ABSTRACT Legal academics are vulnerable and the contemporary law school is eroding their resilience. Using vulnerability theory, as developed by Professor Martha Fineman, this article analyses the reasons for the loss of assets that could provide resilience in the modern university and the modern law school. Audit culture, the economics of resourcing higher education, the growth of mass higher education

ABSTRACT Legally aided criminal defence work is under significant strain at present following fee stagnations and funding cuts over the last 20 years. This has obvious implications for those working in criminal defence practice, which have been examined in the literature on access to criminal justice. However, the implications for teaching and learning within criminal law and practice have been not

ABSTRACT In this paper, I examine how university-based legal education has been facing pressures founded on a growing free-market fundamentalism which strengthen in law schools worldwide a model of education that Paulo Freire termed “banking”. In countries of Latin American constitutionalism like Brazil, such pressures also entail the denigration of progressive understandings of the social right to

ABSTRACT Grant funding sought by academics for research or service activities can facilitate societal transformation and the development of community resilience. Grant funding, for the purpose of this paper, will refer to funding from govern- mental sources. Funding can be an agent for transformation and resilience for individuals and communities but has both positive and negative consequences. Previous

ABSTRACT The university plays an essential role in the education and social development of professionals. This role is vulnerable in that state support is required to foster sustainability and resilience, especially as the university goes about its job of assuring community-focused professionals. Vulnerability theory and its correlate, resilience, offer a lens to look at the university’s responsibility

(2021). Two futures for law schools. The Law Teacher: Vol. 55, Vulnerability and the Organisation of Academic Labour, pp. 101-104.

(2021). Evidence. The Law Teacher. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Given the increasingly competitive higher education (HE) marketplace, it is becoming progressively more important for university law schools to distinguish their offer. In England and Wales, it is commonplace for non-law undergraduate degree programmes to incorporate compulsory empirical research training within discrete modules or as part of a broader research skills package. Yet this element

ABSTRACT Despite careful planning and preparation, experiential learning environments do not always go according to plan. The North West Tax Clinic demonstrates how teaching can be reframed in a failing clinic to facilitate growth-producing experience and learning. This paper argues that problem-based learning (PBL) can be applied directly to the experiential learning environment to overcome external

(2021). Lord Devlin. The Law Teacher. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This study assesses the learning styles of law students at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill (UWICH) Faculty of Law (FOL) in the Caribbean, based on age, gender and academic performance, using the Grasha-Riechmann Student Learning Style Scale. The study also compared the learning styles of UWICH FOL students with the learning styles of UWICH management students, using a comparator

ABSTRACT This paper draws on our continuing work on the neoliberal and marketised law school and seeks to understand how we might apply vulnerability theory to address some of the problems resulting from current higher education and law school contexts. After outlining our understanding of vulnerability theory and summarising what we believe are some of the ills of a neoliberal law school, this paper

ABSTRACT This article focuses on the role of humility in the law school. It argues in favour of a culture where humility is consciously cultivated in law students. Section I considers the grading curve, a quintessentially North American attribute of almost all law schools. It analyses and theorises the curve and its effect in cultivating humility. It suggests that, while the curve can have a humbling

The “value” of university courses in the UK is increasingly equated with their potential for employability enhancement. Part 1 of this research utilized theory from the marketing discipline to high...

The number of clinical legal education programmes, which can be defined as the study of law through real, or simulated, casework, has grown considerably in United Kingdom law schools in the last 15...

This article explores the value of providing discipline-specific writing support to law undergraduates through writing programmes within law schools. By engaging with an “academic literacies” appro...

Law and Emotion is an increasingly significant area of scholarly inquiry. Over the past three decades, a number of disciplines (e.g. law, psychology, philosophy, economics, neuroscience, etc.) have...

ABSTRACT The global diversity of clinical practice manifests itself in a divergence of roles for clinicians. With data from a qualitative study of university law clinics in Kenya, this article explores the variety of clinical programmes in the country with a view to examining what the various forms of clinics entail for the clinician. The study finds that the role of the clinician in this jurisdiction

This study proposes to investigate the contribution clinical legal education (CLE) can make to student learning in legal ethics. CLE (in the form of student law clinics and CLE modules) is a learning environment in which students learn from experience by providing legal advice to live or simulated clients with the support of their tutors or supervisors. Reflection has been identified as a key feature

Law students face challenges when entering the employment market irrespective of where they reside. Apart from increasing competition from their peers, there is often a disconnect between theory in...

Decolonial thought in law acknowledges that the legal history which created our present realities has not always been benign or kind. In producing and maintaining global inequalities, extreme pover...

ABSTRACT On 20 March 2019, the Decolonise UoK, formerly Decolonise UKC conference took place at the University of Kent (W Ahmed and others, Decolonising the Curriculum Project Manifesto: Through the Kaleidoscope (2019)

ABSTRACT This article reviews a final year undergraduate module, “Crime, Punishment and Justice in the British Empire”, evaluating the extent to which it contributed a de/postcolonial perspective within the delivery of a criminology programme’s curriculum. To do this the paper first critiques the discipline of criminology and its links with colonialism, before describing how this module was designed

ABSTRACT How do we create spaces within British law schools, for genuine engagement with decolonised methodologies and epistemologies? This paper examines an attempt to decolonise the curriculum in the rewriting of a module entitled “Justice, Law, and Human Rights”, taught at the University of Dundee. I will reflect on the process of choosing the module topics and readings, and the successes and challenges

ABSTRACT This article focuses on the difficulties encountered by socio-legal researchers in approaching questions on law and history, with particular reference to choosing adequate methodologies. Drawing on her personal experience in researching colonial laws and questions on indigeneity, the author outlines established lines of thought while suggesting new ways of interpreting historical material

ABSTRACT The title of this paper is based on a question we were asked by a white colleague at a staff development session we were delivering. It is our problem because we are implicated in creating and perpetuating a colonised law curriculum. The focus of this paper is on what the role of white academics is in decolonising the law school; we contend that we cannot decolonise the curriculum if we do

ABSTRACT Understanding Black Feminist thinking and decolonial strategy as intimately connected, this paper argues that the foregrounding of Black Feminist epistemology is crucial in the decolonisation of university curricula. Focusing specifically on British undergraduate law curricula this paper argues that Black British Feminist modes of thought could produce effective and long-lasting change in

ABSTRACT Whilst Islam’s role in shaping science as a whole has been well documented and reasonably recognised, its role in shaping Western law has been almost ignored. Arguably the most famous works on Islam’s contribution to Western humanities and law are by George Makdisi but his works are not used as core textbooks in law schools to understand how legal principles and institutions formed within

Changes in the higher education sector globally have resulted in the transition from an elite to a mass model of education, encouraging the participation of students who have traditionally been und...

English Legal System (no “The” for some reason) is a text intended for an undergraduate module of the same name or similar, depending on the university course. It has been written by lecturers, pas...

Technology is changing the way that legal services are delivered and is having an impact on the administration of justice. Law firms are increasingly adopting digital technologies to disrupt tradit...

(2021). Resisting disappearance: military occupation and women’s activism in Kashmir. The Law Teacher: Vol. 55, Vulnerability and the Organisation of Academic Labour, pp. 111-113.

(2020). Feeling queer jurisprudence: injury, intimacy, identity. The Law Teacher. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Criminal law directions. The Law Teacher: Vol. 55, Vulnerability and the Organisation of Academic Labour, pp. 115-117.

This article provides a critique of The Fairness Project, a learning and teaching project on equality and diversity in the legal profession and its impact on employability, delivered over three yea...

This is a book which shows how the theory of law is applied. The author uses a number of high profile, and in some cases controversial, judicial decisions to illustrate this, including the case of ...

This paper explores the dynamics of emotion in law and legal classrooms by showing: (1) why foregrounding how law is shaped by emotion better equips students to learn about how law advances and/or ...

Feedback is an intrinsic part of the learning process in higher education. Despite the development of teaching and learning strategies underpinning the usefulness of feedback, lecturers continue to...

For decades, law has been perceived as one of the most worthwhile degree programmes for students to undertake. In more recent years, contemporary rhetoric has begun to question the “value” of higher education in the modern world, and forthcoming regulatory changes in England and Wales will significantly dilute the concept of a “qualifying law degree”, which in all likelihood has historically played

Key Directions in Legal Education is the latest instalment in the “Legal Pedagogy” book series from the publisher Routledge (p. xv), the focus of which is on university legal education (pp. xvi–xvi...

Obligation and Commitment in Family Law is an insightful, original and sophisticated addition to the family law academy. Douglas’ overall aim is to explore the law’s treatment of familial obligatio...

This article introduces Ratio! A Game of Judgment, a card game jointly developed by Dr David Yuratich (the sole author of this article) and Dr Thomas Giddens. Ratio provides an innovative and immer...

Concerns have been raised about how well legal education prepares law students for the reality of their future work life. Some research suggests that law students find it difficult to transfer and ...