Legal Education

Caroline Strevens is Principal Lecturer and Head of The School of Law, University of Portsmouth. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and also has considerable experience as a practising solicitor. She has developed innovative units for the degree pathways, and is a keen advocate of learning from experience. She is a regular commentator on issues relating to legal education, developments in the legal services market and in particular in the use of technology and simulation. Richard Grimes is Director of Clinical Programmes at York Law School, University of York. As a former Professor of Legal Education and, in a previous life, a partner in a law firm he remains committed to learning by doing and to improving access to justice. He has also worked as an independent consultant on a variety of legal education projects in the UK and further afield including Afghanistan, Iran and Nigeria. He has published widely on clinical legal education issues and in the legal skills field. Edward Phillips is Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Greenwich. As well as lecturing in law, the author has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Malaya. He regularly presents and has published widely on aspects of legal education and the use of simulations. He is also on the Editorial Board of COMPASS: The Journal of Learning and Teaching.

List of Figures and Tables, Notes on Contributors, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1 Simulation and Technology in Legal Education: A Systematic Review, 2 Simulation and the Learning of the Law: Constructing and Using an Online Transactional Assessment in Employment Law, 3 Shaping the Future Lawyer: Connecting Students with Clients in First-Year Law, 4 Setting the Stage: Using a Simulation as a First Day of Class Exercise, 5 A Large-Scale Simulation, Practitioners, their Feelings and the Verfremdungseffekt, 6 Using Interviewing and Negotiation to Further Critical Understanding of Family and Child Law, 7 Virtual Learning for the Real World: Using Simulation with Non-law Students, 8 Faking it and Making it? Using Simulation with Problem-Based Learning, 9 From Trials to Simulations: Learning and Teaching Law and Ethics Using Famous Cases, 10 Revisiting the Law of Evidence: A Case Study on the Practicalities of Simulation-Based Learning and Teaching, 11 Adding Realism to Professional Legal Education at the University of Hong Kong, 12 ‘Ill-Structured’ Simulations in Two American Law Classes: Labour Law and Administrative Law, Postscript, Index