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Zusatztext 'Simulation has a vital role to play in scaffolding the learning of law students but can only achieve its potential when it is well designed and effectively targeted as part of an integrated legal education. This book brings together leading legal educators from various parts of the English-speaking world and will advance our collective understanding of the contribution that simulation can make to preparing future lawyers! legal educators and scholars.' Jeff Giddings! Griffith University! Australia 'Practical guidance and a sound theoretical basis for anyone considering introducing simulation to develop students' learning of the law. The authors' wealth of experience provides examples in many substantive areas! using different techniques and with different pedagogic goals. This helps you understand how to deepen your students' academic learning and their development as people.' Nigel Duncan! City Law School! UK 'The use of simulation in legal education is gaining in importance and acceptance. Good simulation-based instruction not only grounds legal learning in the actualities of practice! but it also helps students to connect the practical with the theoretical to create the best kind of integrated understanding. With contributions from a number of international experts! this book is an invaluable tool for those looking to design the next generation of legal pedagogy.' Oliver Goodenough! Vermont Law School! USA Informationen zum Autor Caroline Strevens is Principal Lecturer and Head of The School of Law! University of Portsmouth. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and also has considerable experience as a practising solicitor. She has developed innovative units for the degree pathways! and is a keen advocate of learning from experience. She is a regular commentator on issues relating to legal education! developments in the legal services market and in particular in the use of technology and simulation. Richard Grimes is Director of Clinical Programmes at York Law School! University of York. As a former Professor of Legal Education and! in a previous life! a partner in a law firm he remains committed to learning by doing and to improving access to justice. He has also worked as an independent consultant on a variety of legal education projects in the UK and further afield including Afghanistan! Iran and Nigeria. He has published widely on clinical legal education issues and in the legal skills field. Edward Phillips is Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Greenwich. As well as lecturing in law! the author has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Malaya. He regularly presents and has published widely on aspects of legal education and the use of simulations. He is also on the Editorial Board of COMPASS: The Journal of Learning and Teaching. Zusammenfassung Demonstrating how simulation can be constructed and developed as a mechanism for delivering and assessing, this book argues that simulation is a pedagogically valuable and practical tool in teaching the modern law curriculum. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Tables, Notes on Contributors, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1 Simulation and Technology in Legal Education: A Systematic Review, 2 Simulation and the Learning of the Law: Constructing and Using an Online Transactional Assessment in Employment Law, 3 Shaping the Future Lawyer: Connecting Students with Clients in First-Year Law, 4 Setting the Stage: Using a Simulation as a First Day of Class Exercise, 5 A Large-Scale Simulation, Practitioners, their Feelings and the Verfremdungseffekt, 6 Using Interviewing and Negotiation to Further Critical Understanding of Family and Child Law, 7 Virtual Learning for the Real World: Using Simulation with Non-law Students, 8 Faking it and Making it? Using Simulation with Problem-Based Learning, 9 From Trials to Simulations: Learning and Teac...
