Full Description
This book examines the challenges of bringing cutting-edge research in often controversial areas into the law syllabus and explores how academics can effectively adopt a holistic approach to research and pedagogy when teaching rights and justice. The collection brings together experts from all areas of legal scholarship to discuss how they fuse often controversial aspects of rights and justice into their teaching in a way that responds to and is ultimately led by academic research. As such, it advances legal education through the opportunity to explore the interplay between rights and justice and how scholars both ensure that their teaching is research-led, whilst responding to the needs and views of students and issues such as generational differences in viewpoints on controversial issues. This topical volume will appeal to academics and researchers interested in academic freedom, the challenges of research-led teaching and the pedagogy around the teaching of rights and justice.
Contents
Preface; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Teaching Constitutional Law When the Constitution is in Peril; 3. Church-State Law: Navigating Culture Wars in Politically Controversial Areas of Law with Research Informed Teaching; 4. Clinical legal education, just not as you know it: Innocence work and its pedagogical benefits and challenges; 5. Teaching (In)Justice: Navigating the Fault Lines in Criminal Procedure; 6. Teaching Law Students to Advocate for Human Rights and Global Justice through the UPR Project at BCU; 7. The changing experience of teaching Public Law since 2010: New Labour, a novel coalition government, the Scottish referendum, Brexit and the trampling of constitutional norms; 8. International Internships: Preparing Students for Rights and Justice in Action; 9. UK politics and Human Rights: From New Labour's Human Rights Act 1998 to the Conservative's Bill of Rights Bill; 10. Upholding the racial hierarchy: The so-called perspectivelessness of legal study skills; 11. Human Rights Education in Times of Adversity: UK Government Agenda on Refugee Issues; 12. Teaching and debating the legal protection of philosophical belief in the workplace in a university law school; 13. "But it's all about women though" Socio-Legal and Gender research in the core curriculum
