Modernising Legal Education
Modernising Legal Education
Over the last decade, cost pressures, technology, automation, globalisation, de-regulation, and changing client relationships have transformed the practice of law, but legal education has been slow to respond. Deciding what learning objectives a law degree ought to prioritise, and how to best strike the balance between vocational and academic training, are questions of growing importance for students, regulators, educators, and the legal profession. This collection provides a range of perspectives on the suite of skills required by the future lawyer and the various approaches to supporting their acquisition. Contributions report on a variety of curriculum initiatives, including role-play, gamification, virtual reality, project-based learning, design thinking, data analytics, clinical legal education, apprenticeships, experiential learning and regulatory reform, and in doing so, offer a vision of what modern legal education might look like.
- Informs curriculum development for legal educators by drawing on new ways of teaching with technology
- Provides cutting edge, practical examples of innovations in legal technology
- The authors explore how their educational innovations were designed, developed and deployed
Reviews & endorsements
'This book is an essential read for those interested in legal education. Through detailed examples and analysis, it points the way forward to ensure we are educating for the current and future rather than the long gone past.' Christina Blacklaws, Immediate Past President of the Law Society of England and Wales, independent consultant and chair of the UK's LawTech Delivery Panel
'The law and the legal profession are moving on apace and so we have to ask if legal education is still fit for purpose. This collection sets that debate off in an exciting direction.' Neil Rose, Editor, Legal Futures
'This is a timely and thought-provoking book. Reading with a particular interest in lessons for developing the next generation of social justice lawyers, it usefully promotes themes that should drive the future study and practice of law such as collaboration, inter-disciplinary working, design thinking, problem solving, the role of technology and a sharp focus on outcomes for clients.' Matthew Smerdon, Chief Executive of The Legal Education Foundation, founders of the Justice First Fellowship
'Legal education has a Sisyphean task ahead of it: should it cling to the values of liberal education or override them with technocratic vocationalism? This collection provides an eclectic range of answers that will continue to stimulate discussion for years to come. All lawyers within and outwith the academy should read it.' John Flood, Griffith University, Australia
Product details
June 2022Paperback
9781108468879
279 pages
229 × 152 mm
0.38kg
16 b/w illus. 4 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- Foreword Julian Webb
- Introduction Catrina Denvir
- 1. Do lawyers need to learn to code? A practitioner perspective on the 'poly-technic' future of legal education Alexander Smith and Nigel Spencer
- 2. Experiential legal education: stepping back to see the future Jeff Giddings and Jacqueline Weinberg
- 3. Skills swap? Advising technology entrepreneurs in a student clinical legal education program Ian Walden and Patrick Cahill
- 4. Scaling the gap: legal education and data literacy Catrina Denvir
- 5. Bringing ODR to the legal education mainstream: findings from the field Genevieve Grant and Esther Lestrell
- 6. Design comes to the law school Margaret Hagan
- 7. Developing 'nextgen' lawyers through project-based learning Anna Carpenter
- 8. Same as it ever was? Technocracy, democracy and the design of discipline-specific digital environments Paul Maharg
- 9. Ludic legal education from Cicero to Phoenix Wright Andrew Moshirnia
- 10. The gamification of written problem questions in law: reflections on the 'serious games at Westminster' project Paresh Kathrani
- 11. Virtually teaching ethics: experiencing the discrepancy between abstract ethical stands and actual behaviour using immersive virtual reality Sylvie Delacroix and Catrina Denvir
- 12. Paths to practice: regulating for innovation in legal education and training Julie Brannan and Rob Marrs
- 13. 'Complicitous and contestatory': a critical genre theory approach to reviewing legal education in the global, digital age Jane Ching and Paul Maharg
- Afterword
- Index.
