Transforming Legal Education

Paul Maharg is Professor of Law at the Australian National University, and Professor of Law at Nottingham Law School. He has published extensively in the areas of legal education and legal critique. He has worked with regulators, law firms and law schools in England, Scotland, Canada, USA, Hong Kong and Australia.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part 1 In(ter)disciplines: Trading zones; The empty quarter: interdisciplinary research and practice; Conclusion: elasticity and obstacle. Part 2 Laminations: The road not taken: realists and the curriculum; 'By the end of this module...': the intimate dimensions of ethical education; Codex to codecs: the medieval web redivivus; Conclusion: adjacencies. Part 3 Metaverse: Simulations and the metaverse; Transactional learning in action; Relational objects: transactions, professionalism, e-mergence; Multimedia and the docuverse of law: learning and the representation of knowledge; Conclusion: simulation and transformation; Afterword: elective affinities: experience, ethics, technology, collaboration; References; Index.