Critical Legal Education As a Subversive Activity

In an age when everyone aspires to teach critical thinking skills in the classroom, what does it mean to be a subversive law teacher? Who or what might a subversive law teacher seek to subvert - the authority of the law, the university, their own authority as teachers, perhaps?

List of contents

1. An Introduction to Subversive Legal Education


2. A visceral view of subversion in legal education - teaching and research in unusual domains as a methodology


3. Antithesis as Subversive Legal Education: Learning Justice Through Injustice in the Artwork of Sandro Botticelli


4. Subversion and Perspectivism in Teaching Property Law


5. Valuing our Differences: For the Sake of Adaptive Law Schools


6. Re-Thinking Assessment in Law


7. Can Law Schools Provide Students with a Subversive Legal Education in an Online Learning Environment?


8. Hacking the Priestley


9. Value and values in Higher Education: Some reflections from the UK on the subversive dimensions of Historical approaches in the study of Law


10. Education for Citizenship and Social Justice: Students as Co-creators


11. Unlearning Real Property Law


12. The Place of Politics in Teaching International Law


13. Challenging BigLaw: Questioning the Dominant Discourse in Law Student Employment Aspirations

About the author

Helen Gibbon is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law & Justice at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where she is Director of the LLB Program.
Ben Golder is a Professor (and a former Associate Dean of Education) in the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW, Australia. He teaches subjects on legal theory, law and social theory, public law, and the politics of human rights.
Lucas Lixinski is a Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW, Australia.
Marina Nehme is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW, Australia, and a Fellow of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy.
Prue Vines is Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW, Australia, and an Emeritus Fellow of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy.

Summary

In an age when everyone aspires to teach critical thinking skills in the classroom, what does it mean to be a subversive law teacher? Who or what might a subversive law teacher seek to subvert – the authority of the law, the university, their own authority as teachers, perhaps?

Product details

• Authors: Mark Gibbon Duffy, Helen Golder Gibbon
• Assisted by: Mark Duffy (Editor), Helen Gibbon (Editor), Ben Golder (Editor), Golder Ben (Editor), Lucas Lixinski (Editor), Lixinski Lucas (Editor), Marina Nehme (Editor), Nehme Marina (Editor), Prue Vines (Editor), Vines Prue (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032006970
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3200697-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Emerging Legal Education
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / General, Teaching skills and techniques, Jurisprudence & general issues, Teaching skills & techniques, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Jurisprudence and general issues, Legal system: general, Legal systems: general