The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life

Zenon Bańkowski is Emeritus Professor of Legal Theory at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh and a community mediator. He was Principal Investigator of the AHRC Beyond Text in Legal Education Project, based at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. Maksymilian Del Mar is Reader in Legal Theory at the Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London. He has a PhD in Law from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in Social Science from the University of Lausanne. He is Co-Convenor of the Legal Theory and Legal History Research Group at Queen Mary.

Contents: Introduction, Zenon Bankowski and Maksymilian Del Mar; The space to see: law and the ethical imagination, Zenon Bankowski; The education of attention and encounter in the legal academy, Maksymilian Del Mar; On encountering life and learning with/out the text: reflections on Bankowski and Del Mar, Julian Webb; A university is not the world: and nor is its law school, Anthony Bradney; ’Associated life’: democratic professionalism and the moral imagination, Paul Maharg; Challenging the primacy of the text: the role of the visual in legal education, Clare Sandford-Couch; Twyla Tharp goes to law school: on the use of the visual and performing arts in professional education, Thomas Wm. Mayo; Truth in context: sketching a (new) historicist legal pedagogy, Randy Gordon; Performance, pedagogy and law: theatre of the oppressed in the law school classroom, Gillian Calder; Index.