Academic Learning in Law

Theoretical Positions, Teaching Experiments and Learning Experiences

Bart Van Klink, Ubaldus De Vries (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2016
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78471-488-8 (ISBN)

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The nature and purpose of legal education has become a topic of intense debate in recent years. In addition, the book reports upon teaching experiences and innovations, offering tools for teachers to strengthen the academic nature of legal education, and concludes with concrete proposals for change.

The nature and purpose of legal education has become a topic of intense debate in recent years. This timely book calls for a critical re-evaluation of university legal education, with the particular aim of strengthening its academic nature.

The contributors emphasise lecturers' responsibility to challenge the assumptions students have about law, and the importance of putting law in a theoretical and social context that allows for critical reflection and sceptical detachment. In addition, the book reports upon teaching experiences and innovations, offering tools for teachers to strengthen the academic nature of legal education, and concludes with concrete proposals for change.

Students and scholars engaged in the debate regarding the re-evaluation of academic legal education will find this book invaluable to their work. It will also be of interest to practitioners, such as educational experts and administrators looking to understand the role of law schools in creating responsible citizens.

Contributors include: T. Bleeker, A. Böning, L. Corrias, U. de Vries, M. Del Mar, L. Francot, S. Germain, T. Hutchinson, B. Oomen, C. Schwöbel-Patel, B. Sokhi-Bulley, G. Uygur, B. van Klink, W. van Rossum

Edited by Bart van Klink, Professor of Legal Methodology, Department of Legal Theory and Legal History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Ubaldus de Vries, Institute for Jurisprudence, Constitutional and Administrative Law, School of Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Contents:

Foreword

1. Introduction1

Part I THEORY AND LEGAL EDUCATION
2. Knowledge and Aphasia: What is the Use of Skeptical Legal Education
Bart van Klink

3. Re-Bildung: An Ideal Reconsidered for Legal Education
Lyana Francot and Luigi Corrias

4. Academic Education and Socialisation
Anja Böning

5. The Necessary Loneliness of Teaching (and of Being a Legal Academic)
Anthony Bradney

Part II Experimental Courses
6. Teaching International Law Critically- Critical Pedagogy and Bildung as Orientations for Learning and Teaching
Christine Schwöbel-Patel

7. Learning Law Differently: The Importance of Theory and Methodology
Bal Sokhi-Bulley

8. Empirical Methodologies Knowledge and Expertise: A ‘Necessary’ Skill for Lawyers?
Terry Hutchinson

9. Visuals for a Critical Legal Reflection
Wibo van Rossum

10. For a New and More Diverse Comparative Legal Education
Sabrina Germain

PART III DIDACTIC INNOVATIONS AND LEARNING EXPERIMENT
11. Orchestrating Encounters: Teaching Law at a Liberal Arts and Sciences College in the Netherlands
Barbara Oomen

12. Students’ Perception and Legal Education
Gülriz Uygur

13. Learning How to Read a Case: Resources from the Visual and Dramatic Art
Maksymilian Del Mar

14. Law & Lounge: An Experiment on Student Self-Organisation and Critique as Skeptical Reflexivity
Ubaldus de Vries

15. Epilogue: An Overview, Reflections and a Student’s Perspective
Tim Bleeker

16. Conclusions: Concrete Proposals for Change: 14 Theses
Bart van Klink and Ubaldus de Vries

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.08.2016
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-78471-488-7 / 1784714887
ISBN-13	978-1-78471-488-8 / 9781784714888
Zustand	Neuware