"As legal education faces fresh challenges and opportunities, and a growing literature calls for subversive new approaches, this book engages with vital questions about the place of history in the law school. How and why should we teach legal history? What is its place in the curriculum? What can different jurisdictions learn from each other? This collection offers an overview and examples of cutting-edge practice in teaching legal history across the law curriculum, challenging expectations of its place and potential. The book's three sections explore practices and possibilities in the core curriculum; in dedicated legal history courses; and in law schools across the world. They highlight how legal history offers diverse and inclusive content, global perspectives, and transnational understandings to students. By exploring contributors' own purposes and practices, they provide insight and fresh ideas on how and why readers can incorporate legal histories into their own teaching. The volume will be an invaluable resource for all those involved in the teaching of Law and the Law School curriculum"-- Provided by publisher.
This collection offers an overview and examples of cutting-edge practice in teaching legal history across the law curriculum, challenging expectations of its place and potential.
As legal education faces fresh challenges and opportunities, and a growing literature calls for subversive new approaches, this book engages with vital questions about the place of history in the law school. How and why should we teach legal history? What is its place in the curriculum? What can different jurisdictions learn from each other?
This collection offers an overview and examples of cutting-edge practice in teaching legal history across the law curriculum, challenging expectations of its place and potential. The books three sections explore practices and possibilities in the core curriculum; in dedicated legal history courses; and in law schools across the world. They highlight how legal history offers diverse and inclusive content, global perspectives, and transnational understandings to students. By exploring contributors own purposes and practices, they provide insight and fresh ideas on how and why readers can incorporate legal histories into their own teaching.
The volume will be an invaluable resource for all those involved in the teaching of Law and the Law School curriculum.
Introduction; Part 1: Legal history in the core curriculum;
1.
Contextualising Law for both scholarship and practice: the contribution of
Legal History;
2. Feminist Legal History at the Heart of the Law Curriculum;
3. Teaching Public Law through Empires Archive;
4. Using history to
contextualise, diversify and criticise the contract law curriculum; Part 2:
Legal history courses;
5. An immersive, cross disciplinary, approach to
undergraduate legal history A Public Spectacle: Murder and the Law in
Nineteenth Century Newcastle;
6. Opportunities in teaching global legal
history;
7. Anachronisms in legal historical education: pitfalls, benefits
and their importance for every lawyer; Part 3: International perspectives;
8.
Teaching English Legal History at the Continental University: A Case Study of
the University of Lodz;
9. The purpose(s) of teaching legal history in
contemporary Poland: Current situation and future perspectives;
10. Tracing
Threads: Brazilian Legal History's Evolution, Research Reflections, and
Educational Perspectives;
11. The contribution of Legal History to the
curriculum of the modern law school: the Argentinian perspective; Conclusion
Caroline Derry is Professor of Feminism, Law and History at the Open University, UK, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Carol Howells is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Open University, UK.
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