"Teaching Legal Education in the Digital Age explores how legal pedagogy and curriculum design should be modernised to ensure that law students have a realistic view of the future of the legal profession. Using future readiness and digital empowerment ascentral themes, chapters discuss the use of technology to enhance the design and delivery of the curriculum and argue the need for the curriculum to be developed to prepare students for the use of technology in the workplace. The volume draws together a range of contributions to consider the impact of digital pedagogies in legal education and propose how technology can be used in the law curriculum to enhance student learning in law schools and lead excellence in teaching. Throughout, the authors consider what it means to be future-ready and what we can do as law academics to facilitate the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed by future-ready graduates. Part of Routledge's series on Legal Pedagogy, this book will be of great interest to academics, post-graduate students, teachers and researchers of evidence law, as well as those with a wider interest in legal pedagogy or legal practice"--
Teaching Legal Education in the Digital Age explores how legal pedagogy and curriculum design should be modernised to ensure that law students have a realistic view of the future of the legal profession.
List of Editors and Contributors. Foreword.
1. Introduction: Exploring
Becoming Future Ready.
2. Bringing Land Law to Life: Lessons from the
development and deployment of an immersive Virtual Town in the teaching of
Land Law.
3. Using virtual reality to enhance the law school curriculum.
4.
Twitteryvision: Using Twitter live chat to build Communities of Practice as a
legal learning tool.
5. Innovative Opportunities in Technology and the Law:
The Virtual Legal Clinic.
6. Developing a 21st century Legal APPtitude:
Observations from a Postgraduate Legal Technology Unit.
7. Online digital
platforms for teaching law.
8. A blueprint for designing creativity into
learning design.9. Legal Tech and Sustainability.
10. A Polish perspective on
how ensuring access to legal information impacts access to justice and legal
education.
11. Legal education meets computer science: an interdisciplinary
approach to teaching LawTech.
12. Integrating Innovation into a Law School
Curriculum: The Galway Experience.13. LawTech Education: A View from
Oxford.14. A masters degree: empowering digital-age lawyers in legal
technology.15. Legal education as an anchor towards shaping and regulating
the digital world: Models of Law-Tech curriculum.16. Legal academics and the
Fourth Industrial Revolution.17. Law Schools and the Fourth Industrial
Revolution. Index.
Ann Thanaraj is Founder and Host of Digital Lawyering, an international initiative which brings together a global interdisciplinary audience to shape the direction of legal education fit for a digital age. Ann is Assistant Academic Registrar at Teesside University where she leads the digital transformation of learning and teaching institutionally. Ann is a Principal Fellow and National Teaching Fellow (AdvanceHE).
Kris Gledhill is based at AUT Law School, Auckland, New Zealand and is the Series Editor of the Legal Pedagogy Series.
