Imperatives for Legal Education Research

Ben Golder is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the Law Faculty Associate Dean (Education). Ben teaches courses on law and social theory, on public law, and on the politics of human rights. His current research is into contemporary critiques of human rights discourse Marina Nehme is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales and a fellow of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy. Her teaching excellence has been recognized at the national and institutional level. She was formerly the Law Faculty Director of Learning and Teaching. Marina’s research interests are in in corporate law, regulatory sanction and legal education. Alex Steel is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia and a fellow of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy. His teaching excellence has been recognized at the institutional and national level. He was formerly the Law Faculty Associate Dean (Education) and is Acting UNSW Pro Vice Chancellor Education. His research interests are in the pedagogy and regulation of legal education, curriculum design and assessment practices, student wellbeing and teacher development. Prue Vines is Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia and a fellow of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy. Her teaching excellence has been recognized at the institutional level. She is the Director of First Year Studies and incoming Law Faculty Associate Dean (Education). Prue’s research is in tort law, particularly the impact of apologies on civil liability, Indigenous issues in succession law, and legal education, in particular the first year at university and student wellbeing.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I INTRODUCTION:

Chapter 1 Legal Education Research as an Imperative

Ben Golder, Marina Nehme, Alex Steel and Prue Vines*

Chapter 2 The histories of legal education scholarship

Fiona Cownie

PART II CURRENT LANDSCAPES:

Chapter 3 Theoretical Legal Education Research: Engaging neoliberalism

Peter Burdon

Chapter 4 The Poverty of Pessimism

David Dixon

Chapter 5 Empirical Legal Education Research: Empirical research in Australia

Alex Steel

Chapter 6 Practical Legal Education Research: A meta-survey of teaching and learning in practice-based education

Kristoffer Greaves

Chapter 7 Towards a Taxonomy of Legal Education Research

Kate Galloway*, Melissa Castan and Alex Steel

PART III CALLS FOR ACTION:

8 Who Controls University Legal Education in UK

Anthony Bradney

Chapter 9 A virtuous journey through the regulation minefield

Sally Kift

Chapter 10 Trends in Legal Education Reform

Julian Webb

Chapter 11 Thinking or Acting Like A Lawyer? What We Don’t know about Legal Education and are Afraid to Ask

Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Chapter 12 Equipping the Legally Literate Leaders of Tomorrow

Tania Leiman

Chapter 13 Prometheus, Sisyphus, Themis: Three futures for legal education research

Paul Maharg