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  • Imperatives for Legal Education Research

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    Series series Emerging Legal Education
    In the last few decades university teaching has been recognised as an activity which can be studied and improved through educational scholarship. In some disciplines this is now well established. It remains emergent in legal education. The field is rich with questions to be answered, issues to be raised.This book provides the first overall review of legal education scholarship. The chapters ... Read more

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  • Critical Legal Education as a Subversive Activity

    Series series Emerging Legal Education
    In an age when everyone aspires to teach critical thinking skills in the classroom, what does it mean to be a subversive law teacher? Who or what might a subversive law teacher seek to subvert – the authority of the law, the university, their own authority as teachers, perhaps? Are law students ripe for subversion, agents of, or impediments to, subversion? Do they learn to ask critical questions? ... Read more

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